The perinatal health challenges of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: A narrative review.

ABSTRACT: The world has seen numerous infectious disease outbreaks in the past decade. In many cases these outbreaks have had considerable perinatal health consequences including increased risk of preterm delivery (e.g., influenza, measles, and COVID-19), and the delivery of low birth weight or small for gestational age babies (e.g., influenza, COVID-19). Furthermore, severe perinatal outcomes including perinatal and infant death are a known consequence of multiple infectious diseases (e.g., Ebola virus disease, Zika virus disease, pertussis, and measles). In addition to vaccination during pregnancy (where possible), pregnant women, are provided some level of protection from the adverse effects of infection through community-level application of evidence-based transmission-control methods. This revi

SUBMITTER: Malange VNE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9850110 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature