1. Maternal and Fetal Outcomes Among Pregnant Women With Human Monkeypox Infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Mbala, Placide K., Huggins, John W., Riu-Rovira, Therese, Ahuka, Steve M., Mulembakani, Prime, Rimoin, Anne W., Martin, James W., and Muyembe, Jean-Jacques T.
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MONKEYPOX ,PREGNANCY complications ,FETAL development ,ORTHOPOXVIRUSES ,ABORTION ,COMMUNICABLE disease epidemiology ,COMMUNICABLE diseases ,EVALUATION of medical care ,MISCARRIAGE ,PREGNANCY ,VIRUSES ,VIRAL load - Abstract
Human monkeypox is an endemic disease in rain-forested regions of central Democratic Republic of Congo. We report fetal outcomes for 1 of 4 pregnant women who participated in an observational study at the General Hospital of Kole (Sankuru Province), where 222 symptomatic subjects were followed between 2007 and 2011. Of the 4 pregnant women, 1 gave birth to a healthy infant, 2 had miscarriages in the first trimester, and 1 had fetal death, with the macerated stillborn showing diffuse cutaneous maculopapillary skin lesions involving the head, trunk and extremities, including palms of hands and soles of feet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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