Algorithm 3: Management of confirmed parvovirus B19 infection in pregnancy
Last reviewed: 11 December 2008
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- Executive Summary
- Background
- The risk of different rash illnesses in pregnancy
- Laboratory Investigations
- Antibody Screening
- Investigation of a pregnant patient with a non-vesicular rash illness
- The pregnant patient in contact with a non-vesicular rash illness
- Management of proven infection (with rubella, parvovirus, measles, enterovirus, infectious mononucleosis)
- Management of vesicular rash (varicella/herpes zoster) in pregnancy
- Management of vesicular rash (varicella/herpes-zoster) exposure in pregnancy
- Management of neonates exposed to vesicular (varicella/herpes zoster)
- The "continuously exposed" female in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy (e.g. school teachers)
- Information that should be provided to a pregnant woman