Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Pregnancy infections: risk of transmission to baby

== Pregnancy infections: risk of transmission to baby ==
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MedicalNewsAroundTheWorld/~3/nGbfqzERy54/264993.php
(from Medical News Around The World)

Researchers have discovered that mothers who have a bacterial infection or colonization during pregnancy may transmit the infection to their babies, causing early-onset neonatal infection. The study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, analyzed various medical literature databases for studies conducted between January 1960 and March 2013, in order to identify studies of maternal infection, vertical transmission and neonatal infection...

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