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Case Reports
. 2016 Apr 1;62(7):903-905.
doi: 10.1093/cid/civ1024. Epub 2015 Dec 17.

Dilemmas in Managing Pregnant Women With Ebola: 2 Case Reports

Séverine Caluwaerts  1   2 , Tessy Fautsch  1 , Daphne Lagrou  1 , Michel Moreau  3 , Alseny Modet Camara  4 , Stephan Günther  5   6 , Antonino Di Caro  5   7 , Benny Borremans  5   8 , Fara Raymond Koundouno  5   9   10 , Joseph Akoi Bore  5   9   10 , Christopher H Logue  5   11 , Martin Richter  5   12 , Roman Wölfel  5   13 , Eeva Kuisma  5   11 , Andreas Kurth  5   12 , Stephen Thomas  5   11 , Gillian Burkhardt  14 , Elin Erland  14 , Fanshen Lionetto  14 , Patricia Lledo Weber  14 , Olimpia de la Rosa  14 , Hassan Macpherson  15 , Michel Van Herp  1
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Dilemmas in Managing Pregnant Women With Ebola: 2 Case Reports

Séverine Caluwaerts et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

We report 2 cases of Ebola viral disease (EVD) in pregnant women who survived, initially with intact pregnancies. Respectively 31-32 days after negativation of the maternal blood EVD-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) both patients delivered a stillborn fetus with persistent EVD-PCR amniotic fluid positivity.

Keywords: EVD; Ebola; pregnancy.

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