Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy

Exposure to certain infectious diseases during pregnancy may pose a risk to the unborn baby. Click on any of the links below to find Motherisk's published studies on various diseases in pregnancy.

Publications

Risk of varicella infection during late pregnancy
Gideon Koren, MD, FRCPC
Baby has low risk of contracting varicella virus from mom-to-be - MedicalPost.com
N Engl J Med. 1994 Mar 31;330(13):901-5.
Pastuszak AL et al: Outcome after maternal varicella infection in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Influenza vaccination during pregnancy
Ran D. Goldman, MD Gideon Koren, MD, FRC
Varicella virus vaccine before pregnancy: Important breakthrough in protecting fetuses
Gideon Koren, MD, FRCPC
Erythema infectiosum (Fifth disease) and pregnancy
David Mankuta, MD; Benjamin Bar-Oz, MD; Gideon Koren, MD, FRCPC
Am J Perinatol 8: 227-231, 1991.
Levy M, Koren G: Maternal and fetal safety of Hepatitis B vaccine in pregnancy.
N Engl J Med 330; 901-905, 1994.
Pastuszak A, Levy M, Shick Boschetto B, Zuber C, Feldkamp M, Gladstone J, BarLevy F, Jackson E, Meschino W, Koren G: Outcome after maternal varicella infection in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Can Fam Physicians 41: 1477-1478, 1995. No abstract available.
Koren G: Chickenpox during pregnancy; small but real risk.

PREGNANCY & BREASTFEEDING RESOURCES

Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy