Infants in developing countries acquire a high titer of transplacental anti-rotavirus IgG from their mother, which wanes in the infant with a half-life of 3–4 weeks. Studies of Rotarix have ...

Infection of the fetus early in pregnancy results in congenital varicella syndrome; transplacental infection at delivery results in neonatal varicella. Interestingly, recurrent VZV infection ...

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More information: Tamiris Azamor et al, Transplacental SARS-CoV-2 protein ORF8 binds to complement C1q to trigger fetal inflammation, The EMBO Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44318-024-00260-9 ...

The usual way in which the fetus is infected is by transplacental spread after maternal infection in which the organism circulates in the mother's blood. These infections, acquired in utero ...

Such patients have been clearly distinguished from newborn infants with transitory thrombocytopenia secondary to transplacental passage of maternal antiplatelet antibody, 1,2 in whom a genetic ...

Any protection against the virus depends upon transplacental transfer of maternal antibodies from vaccination or infection.