1. Infants born to mothers with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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Shek CC, Ng PC, Fung GPG, Cheng FWT, Chan PKS, Peiris MJS, Lee KH, Wong SF, Cheung HM, Li AM, Hon EKL, Yeung CK, Chow CB, Tam JS, Chiu MC, and Fok TF
- Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a newly discovered infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus. During the community outbreak in Hong Kong, 5 liveborn infants were born to pregnant women with SARS. A systematic search for perinatal transmission of the SARS-associated coronavirus, including serial reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assays, viral cultures, and paired serologic titers, failed to detect the virus in any of the infants. In addition, none of the infants developed clinical, radiologic, hematologic, or biochemical evidence suggestive of SARS. One preterm infant developed jejunal perforation and another developed necrotizing enterocolitis with ileal perforation shortly after birth. This case series is the first report to describe the clinical course of the first cohort of liveborn infants born to pregnant women with SARS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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