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Prospective evaluation of 618 pregnant women exposed to parvovirus B19: risks and symptoms.

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OBJECTIVE:To assess the risk of maternal parvovirus B19 infection from exposure to various sources and the fetal morbidity of those infections. METHODS:We obtained demographic and occupational information about pregnant women exposed to sources of B19 and about the nature and duration of the exposures. We performed serologic testing 10-14 days after exposure using an indirect capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Women with immunoglobulin (Ig) M were examined with weekly ultrasound until 12 weeks after exposure, and the outcome of the pregnancy was ascertained from interviews with patients and their obstetricians. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine risk factors for maternal immunity and infection by B19. RESULTS:Of 618 pregnant women exposed, 307 (49.7%) were immune to B19, 259 remained susceptible after exposure, and 52 (16.7% of all susceptibles) contracted B19 infection. None of the 52 fetuses of infected women developed nonimmune hydrops, and there were no fetal deaths attributable to B19 in this group. The relative risk of maternal B19 infection was 2.8 if the source was a related child living in the household (95% confidence interval 1.7, 4.6; P < .001). No significant differences were found for maternal B19 infection in eight categories of maternal occupation. Maternal symptoms of polyarthralgia (46%), fever (19%), and nonspecific rash (38%) were significantly more common (P < .001) in IgM-positive patients than in noninfected women (4.1%, 2.8%, and 5.7%, respectively). Only 17 (33%) of the IgM-positive women were entirely asymptomatic. CONCLUSION:The risk of maternal B19 infection in pregnancy could not be predicted by a gravida's occupation, but it was significantly higher when the source of exposure was her own child. The fetal risk of nonimmune hydrops after maternal B19 infection must be very low. As a consequence, exclusion of pregnant women from the workplace during endemic periods with seasonal clusters of cases is not justified. Weekly fetal ultrasound evaluation in these cases carries a low yield.

journal_name

Obstet Gynecol

journal_title

Obstetrics and gynecology

authors

Harger JH,Adler SP,Koch WC,Harger GF

doi

10.1016/s0029-7844(97)00701-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-03-01 00:00:00

pages

413-20

issue

eissn

0029-7844

issn

1873-233X

pii

S0029-7844(97)00701-1

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Prospective evaluation of 618 pregnant women exposed to parvovirus B19: risks and symptoms.