Neonatal Varicella.

ABSTRACT

Varicella or chickenpox is primarily an infectious disease of childhood and majority of population is infected upto 15 years of age. Rarely, varicella is seen in newborns as congenital or perinatal infection, but in such cases mortality rate is very high. Here we present two cases of neonatal varicella with secondary complications, one with varicella pneumonia and other developing severe secondary skin infection and sepsis.