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| An acronym for infections that can attack an embryo or fetus (after week 8) and cause abortion, abnormal fetal development, severe congenital anomalies, mental retardation, and fetal or neonatal death. |
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| Toxoplasmosis (protozoan) |
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Other transplacental infections:
HIV
Hepatitis B
human parvovirus
syphilis |
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| erythrovirus B19 (formerly known as parvovirus B19 or human parvovirus) |
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| A type of parvovirus that causes erythema infectiosum |
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| erythema infectiosum (fifth disease) |
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| A usually benign, nonfebrile disease, but pts may experience a mild, brief illness; complaints include fever, malaise, headache, and pruritus. The characteristic erythema (reddening of the skin) appears about 10 days later. However, intrauterine infection may produce fetal anemia with hydrops fetalis and death. |
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| relating to a gland or glands |
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| generalized edema in infants, marked by cardiac decompensation, hepatosplenomegaly, and respiratory and circulatory distress |
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| droplet precautions. A febrile virus transmitted through contact with nasopharygeal secretions, blood, urine, and stool of infected people. S/S include fever, sore throat, Forschheimer spots (pinpoint reddish areas on the palate), and lymphadenopathy. Rash appears about 50% of the time. |
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