LABORATORY DIAGNOSTICS OF PRENATAL RUBELLA INFECTION AND OF CONGENITAL RUBEOLA SYNDROME
Within the frameworks of international program on the CRS (congenital rubeola syndrome) syndrome expectant mothers with possibility of rubella (164), parturient women with hives of unascertained etiology in anamnesis (3) and newborns with possibility of CRS (4) have been examined in a laboratorial way. Traces of rubella infection were detected as for 13 women, the CRS diagnosis was laboratory proved as for 3 newborns. The received data demonstrated the key role of laboratory research in diagnostics and prediction of the outcome of prenatal rubella.