Perinatal varicella. A potential risk

Abstract

We make a revision about perinatal varicella, opportunely the presentation a newborn with varicella al 17º day life. The antecedent of motherly varicella in your adolescence, the absence of clinical during the gestation and the positive serologies during the outbreak of the disease in the newborn, suggest motherly reinfection or reactivation by varicella-zoster virus. It corroborate, in opposition the belief about the protection of the motherly transplacental antibodies, the vulnerability to this virus in newborn of inmue mothers. We plead for the early use of varicella-zoster inmunoglobulina and aciclovir, due to the gravity potential of perinatal varicella.