Neurological and Neuromuscular Disorders Alan Hill In the context of dramatic improvements in obstetric care and in the treatment of neonatal respiratory disorders and infection, neurologic problems remain a major…
Healthcare-Associated Infections Jukka K. Korpela Joyce Campbell Nalini Singh Like birth itself, survival of the premature newborn is a miracle. The improved survival of the very low birth weight neonate…
Miscellaneous Viral and Protozoal Pathogens Table 48-7 is a summary of some known and putative fetal and neonatal ill effects of a few additional viruses and protozoa that can infect…
Toxoplasmosis Toxoplasmosis is a common zoonosis, afflicting approximately one in three people worldwide. Infections of immunocompetent hosts are typically asymptomatic or benign, but intrauterine infections and illnesses in immunosuppressed patients…
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection The global impact of HIV-1 infection is staggering. The WHO has estimated that, as of the end of 2003, approximately 37.8 million people were…
West Nile Virus West Nile virus (WNV) was first isolated from an infected woman in 1937 in the West Nile district of Uganda, and has since been found to be…
Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Human infections by lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) have been recognized since 1933. LCMV is an RNA virus that belongs to the family Arenaviridae, and its reservoir in…
Hepatitis Virus Infections Hepatitis A Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a small, nonenveloped RNA virus that belongs to the picornavirus family. There are several genotypes of HAV, but only one…
Parvovirus B19 Infections Human parvovirus B19 was discovered fortuitously in the mid-1970s by British scientists evaluating new laboratory methods for the improved detection of HBsAg in blood donor sera (652)….
Other Herpesvirus Infections Epstein-Barr Virus Primary Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections during pregnancy are rare because ≥95% of adults have serologic evidence of past infection. Estimates place the risk at 0.0%…
