[Gestational HSV in the work setting]

The purpose of our studies has been that to individualize the in partnership factors of risk to infection Herpes Simplex Virus-Type 2 in pregnant women and to appraise the role of the job in such context.A champion of 79 pregnant women with infection from HSV-2 has responded to a questionnaire regarding the appearance of the infection, her own job and the degree of stress, if they used services hygienic public.In this champion of pregnant women 63% they are workers. Of these the 85% they introduced signs of a reinfection. For the housewives in 67% there was a reinfection. 84% of the housewives it uses services hygienic privacies. The infection from HSV has appeared in 28.5% of the been born by women with first infection from HSV genitalis, and in 12.5% of the been born by women with reinfection from HSV.The women that work are mostly to risk of reinfection, they have more evident troubles. This is consequence of a style of life that contemplates a state of superior stress and a great tiredness from the same and of the appearance of vulvo-vaginal infections sustained by microorganisms transmitted through the hygienic services.