PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - White, Jordan C.
AU  - Magee, Susanna R.
TI  - Neonatal Herpes Infection: Case Report and Discussion
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2011.06.100257
DP  - 2011 Nov 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 758--762
VI  - 24
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/24/6/758.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/24/6/758.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2011 Nov 01; 24
AB  - Neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections are often life-threatening. Although sometimes difficult to diagnose, most infections can be treatable when found early. Infection with HSV should be kept high on the differential diagnosis of a febrile newborn younger than 1 month old, and treatment should be strongly considered for infants with certain risk factors, even before definitive culture or polymerase chain reaction results are available. The case presented here exemplifies the benefits of maintaining a high suspicion of and empirically treating for HSV in a 10-day-old febrile infant.