Vertical transmission of dengue

• Main Authors: Chye, J.K., Lim, C.T., Ng, K.B., Lim, J.M., George, R., Lam, S.K.
• Format: Article
• Published: Oxford University Press 1997
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/362/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9431381

Dengue, an important mosquito-borne flavivirus infection, is endemic in Southeast Asia. We describe two mothers who had acute dengue 4 and 8 days before the births of their infants. One mother had worsening of her proteinuric pregnancy-induced hypertension, liver dysfunction, and coagulopathy and re...