TY - JOUR T1 - Neonatal Herpes Infection: Case Report and Discussion JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 758 LP - 762 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2011.06.100257 VL - 24 IS - 6 AU - Jordan C. White AU - Susanna R. Magee Y1 - 2011/11/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/24/6/758.abstract N2 - 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. ER -