Neonatal Rash Due to Herpes Gestationis

Figure 1. A 6-day-old infant with a 48-hour history of facial lesions had been born at 37 weeks of gestation after a spontaneous vaginal delivery without complications. According to her mother, the newborn was thriving and had had no behavioral changes coincident with the onset of the rash. Multiple yellow plaques on erythematous bases — some with tiny vesicles — were scattered and at times coalescent across the infant's face, but the periorbital region and mucosa were spared (Panel A). At 33 weeks of gestation, the infant's mother had had an intensely pruritic rash characterized by widely scattered papular and . . .