As of last year, RSV vaccination with Abrysvo has been recommended for pregnant women in the United States from 32 to 36 ...

Current guidelines recommend that pregnant people receive a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)—which typically ...

Blockade of IgG binding to FcRn in the placenta is also believed to prevent transplacental transfer of maternal alloantibodies to the fetus. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European ...

OpEd: COVID vaccinations have been observed to cut childhood COVID-19 hospitalizations in half. And yes, vaccinations are not free of complications, but they are a much better plan than getting the ...

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 ...

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

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

Edlow and her team's prior work evaluating prenatal administration of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines demonstrated that timing of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...