Maternal and neonatal infections

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Herpes infections in pregnancy and newborn

Australia

• SA Health
  • Genital Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Infection in Pregnancy

• WA Health
  • Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV): management of neonates born to HSV positive women

Canada

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Acyclovir versus Valacyclovir for Herpes Virus in Children and Pregnant Women: A Review of the Clinical Evidence and Guidelines [2014]

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Prevention and management of neonatal herpes simplex virus infections [2020]

• Government of Alberta
  • Alberta public health disease management guidelines : neonatal herpes simplex infection

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Genital Herpes: Diagnosis and Treatment

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Guidelines for the Management of Herpes Simplex Virus in Pregnancy [2017]

Germany

• Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
  • Characteristics of neonatal herpes simplex virus infections in Germany: results of a 2-year prospective nationwide surveillance study [2022]

India

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • Herpes Simplex [2022]

International

• Lancet Global Health
  • First estimates of the global and regional incidence of neonatal herpes infection [2017]

New Zealand

• New Zealand Herpes Foundation
  • Neonatal HSV Infection [2024]
  • Genital Herpes in Pregnancy [2024]

• Starship
  • Herpes Simplex Virus
  • Aciclovir (Acyclovir IV) for neonates

Spain

• Anales de Pediatría (English Edition)
  • The Spanish Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of neonatal herpes simplex infections [2018]

United Kingdom

• British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
  • Joint British Association for Sexual Health and HIV and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists national UK guideline for the management of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in pregnancy and the neonate (2024 update) [2025]

• UK National Screening Committee
  • Genital herpes

United States

• Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Laboratory Diagnosis of Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infections [2019]

• Pediatrics
  • Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection Among Medicaid-Enrolled Children: 2009–2015 [2019]

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  • Neonatal infections
  • Infections in pregnancy
  • Herpes