Infections, such as cytomegalovirus (CMV), Zika, HIV, hepatitis B and C, skin infections, and lower respiratory tract infections
Description
- Multiple unrelated organisms grouped by a shared problem: maternal infection with a distinct risk to the fetus/neonate
- Two transmission patterns
- Vertical (transplacental/perinatal) - CMV, Zika, HIV, hepatitis B/C, varicella, parvovirus B19
- Maternal severity amplified by pregnancy - influenza, pneumonia (physiological dec FRC + immune shift -> more severe LRTI)
- CMV is the commonest congenital infection worldwide
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