PMID: 5173757Feb 1, 1971Paper

Rubella as a teratogen

Birth Defects Original Article Series
J B Hardy

Abstract

The clinical, epidemiologic and laboratory information available in the Johns Hopkins Rubella Study forms the basis for discussion of the pathogenesis of congenital rubella, the varied clinical characteristics of the phenotype and the substantial risk of fetal loss and abnormality when maternal rubella occurs in the first half of pregnancy.

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