Infections by the hepatitis B virus (VHB) that occur during infancy, acquired from a mother carrying the virus, account for 40% of all infections and are of great clinical and epidemiological relevance worldwide. Despite the acute infection being symptomatic in less than 10% of children, the development of a chronic infection and its consequences, after an acute infection, is inversely proporti...

Optimal management of intrauterine infection to avoid serious adverse perinatal outcomes entails prompt administration antibiotics and consideration early delivery the fetus remove focus infection. We report an unusual case preterm chorioamnionitis which did not improve with sensitive antibiotics, or fetus, ultimately required emergency hysterectomy save mother’s life. Interestingly, subsequent...

BACKGROUND Limited data are available regarding global hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related morbidity and mortality and potential reduction in disease burden from hepatitis B vaccination. METHODS A model was developed to calculate the age-specific risk of acquiring HBV infection, acute hepatitis B (illness and death), and progression to chronic HBV infection. HBV-related deaths among chronically i...

Perinatal exposure to the food contaminant bisphenol A (BPA) in rats induces long lasting adverse effects on intestinal immune homeostasis. This study was aimed at examining the immune response to dietary antigens and the clearance of parasites in young rats at the end of perinatal exposure to a low dose of BPA. Female rats were fed with BPA [5 µg/kg of body weight/day] or vehicle from gestatio...

BACKGROUND To report the outcomes of women admitted following preterm pre-labour rupture of membranes (pPROM) and to determine whether the location of care (hospital vs outpatient) influences maternal and perinatal outcomes. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was performed using routinely collected de-identified data of 144 women (between June 2007 and June 2011) who presented to the Mater ...

Pregnant women are also affected by COVID-19, with infection rates similar to nonpregnant women. Labor and delivery a COVID-19 presents unique challenges for ensuring the safety of mother, fetus, newborn as well clinicians other healthcare personnel. In this article, we present perinatal obstetric anesthetic management strategies derived from best available evidence provide guidance in caring p...

In order to outline the natural course of perinatal hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, we prospectively followed seven HCV-positive children for a mean period of 65.1 months (range, 26-90 months). Physical examination findings, growth, and bilirubin and immunoglobulin levels were constantly normal. All children were still viremic at last analysis. HCV-RNA was almost constantly detected througho...

Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the most common and spoiling sexually transmitted diseases in different countries. It plays an important role in disease such as salpingitis and arthritis, crevicitis, premature rupture of membrane, neonatal infection while passing through the vaginal, infertility and ectopic pregnancy. This study was designed to investigate the prevalence of Chlamydia infection ...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate maternal and perinatal outcomes in preeclampsia (pe), according to the value of albumin.materials and methods: preeclamptic women were retrospectively divided into mild hypoproteinemia (mhp, n = 220) and severe hypoproteinemia (shp, n = 79) pe according to the value of albumin. the maternal and perinatal outcomes were evaluated in both groups. r...

PROBLEM To study the relationship between perinatal prognosis in cases of preterm labor (PTL) and polymicrobial infection in amniotic fluid (AF) and intra-amniotic (IA) inflammation using a highly sensitive and reliable PCR-based method. METHOD OF STUDY To detect prokaryotes using a nested PCR-based method, eukaryote-made thermostable DNA polymerase without bacterial DNA contamination was use...