Vertically transmitted infections: detection and clinical management. Bibliographic review
Vertical transmission infections have been a public health challenge for decades due to their impact on maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. Pregnant women are vulnerable to contracting infections affecting the fetus or newborn and generating significant complications, which have repercussio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2025-07-01
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| Series: | Medicina Universitaria |
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| Online Access: | https://www.medicinauniversitaria.org/frame_eng.php?id=284 |
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| Summary: | Vertical transmission infections have been a public health challenge for decades due to their impact on maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. Pregnant women are vulnerable to contracting infections affecting the fetus or newborn and generating significant complications, which have repercussions on global epidemiological trends. In the Mexican Institute of Social Security, more than 500,000 live newborns are born annually, of which between 0.01% and 0.1% may suffer perinatal exposure to human immunodeficiency virus, taking into account the prevalence of this infection in women of childbearing age. In this article, the different pathogenic groups with evidence of being potentially transmissible from mother to child are mentioned; their effects are exposed; and recommendations for their detection, treatment, and prevention are offered. The aim of this work is to summarize these pathologies so that all healthcare personnel working at different levels of care keep this group of pathogens in mind when dealing with pregnant patients or those who wish to become pregnant. This should be based on primary and secondary prevention during follow-up visits, in order to achieve a comprehensive response that includes at least a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, an infectologist, a pediatrician, a psychologist or psychiatrist, nursing staff, and social workers.
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| ISSN: | 1665-5796 2530-0709 |