Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Maternal and neonatal infections

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

 

Bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy

• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Antibiotics for treating bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy
• United Kingdom
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Bacterial vaginosis screening in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
    • Evidence on the Benefits and Harms of Screening and Treating Pregnant Women Who Are Asymptomatic for Bacterial Vaginosis: An Update Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2008]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnancy to Prevent Preterm Delivery: Screening [2008]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Bacterial vaginosis

Candidiasis in pregnancy and newborn

• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Topical treatment for vaginal candidiasis (thrush) in pregnancy
    • Prophylactic systemic antifungal agents to prevent mortality and morbidity in very low birth weight infants
    • Prophylactic oral/topical non-absorbed antifungal agents to prevent invasive fungal infection in very low birth weight infants
    • Patient isolation measures for infants with candida colonization or infection for preventing or reducing transmission of candida in neonatal units
    • Antifungal therapy for newborn infants with invasive fungal infection
• Europe
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Systemic Antifungal Prescribing in Neonates and Children: Outcomes from the Antibiotic Resistance and Prescribing in European Children (ARPEC) Study [2014]
  • European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
    • ESCMID* guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: prevention and management of invasive infections in neonates and children caused by Candida spp. [2012]
• Japan
  • Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
    • Nationwide survey of treatment for pediatric patients with invasive fungal infections in Japan [2013]
• United States of America
  • Current Opinion in Pediatrics
    • Fluconazole prophylaxis for prevention of invasive candidiasis in infants [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Candidiasis

Chlamydia infection in pregnancy

• Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BioMed Research International
    • Chlamydia trachomatis Infection in Pregnancy: The Global Challenge of Preventing Adverse Pregnancy and Infant Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia [2016]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Interventions for treating genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in pregnancy
• Japan
  • Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis Infection Determined by Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests in Pregnant Women in Japan [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Chlamydia screening in pregnancy
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Chlamydia infections

Congenital syphilis

• America
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Gestational syphilis and stillbirth in the Americas: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Infectious and congenital syphilis notifications associated with an ongoing outbreak in northern Australia [2016]
    • Notification and management of congenital syphilis in the Northern Territory 2009 to 2014 [2015]
• Brazil
  • Revista de Saúde Pública
    • Prevalence of syphilis in pregnancy and prenatal syphilis testing in Brazil: Birth in Brazil study [2014]
  • Revista Paulista de Pediatria
    • In time: the persistence of congenital syphilis in Brazil - More progress needed! [2016]
• Canada
  • Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology
    • Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network laboratory guidelines for congenital syphilis and syphilis screening in pregnant women in Canada [2015]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Congenital syphilis: No longer just of historical interest [2016]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Strategies of testing for syphilis during pregnancy
    • Antibiotics for syphilis diagnosed during pregnancy
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Congenital syphilis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2015 [2017]
• Ghana
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Rollout of rapid point of care tests for antenatal syphilis screening in Ghana: healthcare provider perspectives and experiences [2018]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • The amount of penicillin needed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of syphilis [2016]
    • Untreated maternal syphilis and adverse outcomes of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
    • The sound of silence: missing the opportunity to save lives at birth [2013]
    • The prevention and management of congenital syphilis: an overview and recommendations [2004]
    • Prevention of congenital syphilis - time for action [2004]
    • Maternal syphilis: pathophysiology and treatment [2004]
    • Maternal and congenital syphilis programmes: case studies in Bolivia, Kenya and South Africa [2004]
    • Economic and programmatic aspects of congenital syphilis prevention [2004]
    • Diagnostic tools for preventing and managing maternal and congenital syphilis: an overview [2004]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Accelerating Dual Elimination of Mother-To-Child Transmission of Syphilis and HIV Through Use of New Diagnostic Tools [2015]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Shortages of benzathine penicillin for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis: An evaluation from multi-country surveys and stakeholder interviews [2017]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • The Global Epidemiology of Syphilis in the Past Century – A Systematic Review Based on Antenatal Syphilis Prevalence [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Estimating Benzathine Penicillin Need for the Treatment of Pregnant Women Diagnosed with Syphilis during Antenatal Care in High-Morbidity Countries [2016]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Congenital Syphilis in Nigeria, Zambia, and India: Identifying Policy Pathways to Eliminate Mother-to-Child Transmission of Syphilis [2016]
• Peru
  • PLoS ONE
    • Rapid Syphilis Testing Is Cost-Effective Even in Low-Prevalence Settings: The CISNE-PERU Experience [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
    • Update on management of syphilis in pregnancy [2011]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Syphilis screening in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Increase in Incidence of Congenital Syphilis — United States, 2012–2014 [2015]
    • Congenital Syphilis --- United States, 2003--2008 [2010]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Syphilis Infection in Pregnancy: Screening [2009]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO guideline on syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant women [2017]
    • Global burden of maternal and congenital syphilis in 2008 and 2012: a health systems modelling study [2016]
    • Global Estimates of Syphilis in Pregnancy and Associated Adverse Outcomes: Analysis of Multinational Antenatal Surveillance Data [2013]
    • Investment case for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of syphilis [2012]
    • Methods for surveillance and monitoring of congenital syphilis elimination within existing systems [2011]
    • The global elimination of congenital syphilis: rationale and strategy for action [2007]
    • Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission of Syphilis (Congenital Syphilis)
    • Eliminating congenital syphilis
• Zambia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Scaling Down to Scale Up: A Health Economic Analysis of Integrating Point-of-Care Syphilis Testing into Antenatal Care in Zambia during Pilot and National Rollout Implementation [2015]
    • Introduction of Syphilis Point-of-Care Tests, from Pilot Study to National Programme Implementation in Zambia: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Workers’ Perspectives on Testing, Training and Quality Assurance [2015]
    • Finding a Needle in the Haystack: The Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment during Pregnancy to Prevent Congenital Syphilis in Kalomo District of Zambia [2014]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Eliminating Mother-to-Child Transmission of Syphilis: A Healthy Start to Life in Zambia [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Syphilis
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Cytomegalovirus

• Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Cytomegalovirus
• Germany
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Primary Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) Infection in Pregnancy [2017]
  • GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
    • Are female daycare workers at greater risk of cytomegalovirus infection? A secondary data analysis of CMV seroprevalence between 2010 and 2013 in Hamburg, Germany [2016]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
    • Cytomegalovirus infection: An Indian perspective [2009]
• Iran
  • Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences
    • Meta-analysis of cytomegalovirus seroprevalence in volunteer blood donors and healthy subjects in Iran from 1992 to 2013 [2015]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • CMV
  • Medicine
    • Cytomegalovirus Infection in Ireland: Seroprevalence, HLA Class I Alleles, and Implications [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Public Health England
    • Cytomegalovirus serology
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Update on Treatment [2017]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Cytomegalovirus screening in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Congenital CMV Infection
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cytomegalovirus IgM Seroprevalence among Women of Reproductive Age in the United States [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Gonorrhea in pregnancy and newborn

• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Antibiotics for treating gonorrhoea in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Ocular Prophylaxis for Gonococcal Ophthalmia Neonatorum [2011]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Ceftriaxone – safety in neonates [2008]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Gonorrhea

Group B streptococcal infections

• Australia
  • NSW Ministry of Health
    • Maternal Group B Streptococcus (GBS) and minimisation of neonatal early-onset GBS sepsis [2017]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Vaginal chlorhexidine during labour to prevent early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal infection
    • Intrapartum antibiotics for known maternal Group B streptococcal colonization
    • Intramuscular penicillin for the prevention of early onset group B streptococcal infection in newborn infants
• Developing countries
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Variation in Reported Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease Incidence in Developing Countries [2012]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
    • Prevention of perinatal group B streptococcal infections: A review with an Indian perspective [2014]
• International
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Group B Streptococcal Disease Worldwide for Pregnant Women, Stillbirths, and Children: Why, What, and How to Undertake Estimates? [2017]
  • Vaccine
    • WHO consultation on group B Streptococcus vaccine development: Report from a meeting held on 27–28 April 2016 [2016]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Group B Streptococcal Disease
• Italy
  • Italian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Strategies for preventing group B streptococcal infections in newborns: a nation-wide survey of Italian policies [2017]
• Japan
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Early-onset and late-onset group B streptococcal disease in Japan: a nationwide surveillance study, 2004–2010 [2013]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Vaccine
    • Ethical considerations for designing GBS maternal vaccine efficacy trials in low-middle income countries [2015]
• Netherlands
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
    • Epidemiology of neonatal group B streptococcal disease in the Netherlands before and after introduction of guidelines for prevention [2007]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Barriers and facilitators related to the uptake of four strategies to prevent neonatal early-onset group B haemolytic streptococcus disease: a qualitative study [2017]
    • Implementation of a cost-effective strategy to prevent neonatal early-onset group B haemolytic streptococcus disease in the Netherlands [2013]
• Portugal
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Epidemiological surveillance of colonising group B Streptococcus epidemiology in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley regions, Portugal (2005 to 2012): emergence of a new epidemic type IV/clonal complex 17 clone [2014]
• South Africa
  • BMC Research Notes
    • Antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from pregnant women in Garankuwa, South Africa [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in South Africa: Importance of Surveillance Methodology [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Prevention of early-onset Group B Streptococcal disease – the Northern Ireland experience [2014]
  • Public Health England
    • SMI B 58: detection of carriage of group B streptococci
    • Group B streptococcus infection: enriched culture medium test
    • Detection of carriage of group B streptococci
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Group B Streptococcal Disease, Early-onset [2017]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Group B Streptococcus screening in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Prevention of Early-Onset Group B Streptococcal Disease in Newborns [2011]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease. Revised Guidelines from CDC, 2010 [2010]
    • Group B Strep
  • Clinics in Perinatology
    • Antibiotic Stewardship: Reassessment of Guidelines for Management of Neonatal Sepsis [2014]
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    • Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of the Xpert GBS LB Assay for Detection of Group B Streptococcus in Prenatal Screening Specimens [2014]
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Group B streptococcus (GBS)
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Chorioamnionitis and Culture-Confirmed Early-onset Neonatal Infections [2015]
  • Pediatrics
    • 2010 Perinatal GBS Prevention Guideline and Resource Utilization [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Hepatitis in pregnancy and newborn

• Africa
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • The status of hepatitis B control in the African region [2017]
    • Is hepatitis B birth dose vaccine needed in Africa? [2017]
• Arab countries, Africa
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • Hepatitis B and C virus infections among pregnant women in Arab and African countries [2013]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Prevention of perinatal hepatitis B virus transmission: are we following guidelines? [2017]
  • NSW Ministry of Health
    • Neonatal Hepatitis B Prevention and Vaccination Program [2017]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Hepatitis E infection during pregnancy [2015]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Vertical transmission of the hepatitis C virus: Current knowledge and issues [2016]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Cesarean section to prevent mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus in China: A meta-analysis [2017]
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • Viral hepatitis vaccination during pregnancy [2016]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Hepatitis B vaccination during pregnancy for preventing infant infection
    • Hepatitis B immunoglobulin during pregnancy for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus
    • Caesarean section versus vaginal delivery for preventing mother to infant hepatitis C virus transmission
• Egypt
  • Hepatology
    • Estimation of hepatitis C virus infections resulting from vertical transmission in Egypt [2015]
• Hong Kong
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Age-specific prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection in young pregnant women, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China [2014]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Improving birth dose coverage of hepatitis B vaccine [2006]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • Hepatitis B and C in pregnancy: a review and recommendations for care [2014]
• Iran
  • International Journal of Preventive Medicine
    • Hepatitis B surface antigen prevalence in pregnant women: A cross-sectional survey in Iran [2014]
• North Korea
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Hepatitis B Vaccination Strategies to Prevent Perinatal Transmission in North Korea: Selective Vaccination vs. Universal Vaccination [2016]
• Slovenia
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Hepatitis C virus infection among pregnant women in Slovenia: study on 31,849 samples obtained in four screening rounds during 1999, 2003, 2009 and 2013 [2015]
• Switzerland
  • Journal of Virus Eradication
    • Vertical transmission of hepatitis C: towards universal antenatal screening in the era of new direct acting antivirals (DAAs)? Short review and analysis of the situation in Switzerland [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Management of hepatitis B in pregnant women and infants: a multicentre audit from four London hospitals [2013]
  • Public Health England
    • Vertical and perinatal transmission of hepatitis C
    • Hepatitis B diagnostic serology in the immunocompetent (including hepatitis B in pregnancy)
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Hepatitis B screening in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Elimination of Perinatal Hepatitis B: Providing the First Vaccine Dose Within 24 Hours of Birth [2017]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Women Giving Birth — Tennessee and United States, 2009–2014 [2017]
    • Increased Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Detection in Women of Childbearing Age and Potential Risk for Vertical Transmission — United States and Kentucky, 2011–2014 [2016]
    • Update: Shortened Interval for Postvaccination Serologic Testing of Infants Born to Hepatitis B-Infected Mothers [2015]
    • Postvaccination Serologic Testing Results for Infants Aged =24 Months Exposed to Hepatitis B Virus at Birth — United States, 2008–2011 [2012]
  • Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
    • Prevention of Perinatal Hepatitis B Virus Transmission [2014]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Hepatitis B in Pregnant Women: Screening [2009]
  • World Journal of Hepatology
    • Chronic hepatitis B infection in pregnancy [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Hepatitis

Herpes infections in pregnancy and newborn

• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Acyclovir versus Valacyclovir for Herpes Virus in Children and Pregnant Women: A Review of the Clinical Evidence and Guidelines [2014]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Prevention and management of neonatal herpes simplex virus infections [2014]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Third trimester antiviral prophylaxis for preventing maternal genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) recurrences and neonatal infection
    • Antiviral agents for treatment of herpes simplex virus infection in neonates
• International
  • Lancet Global Health
    • First estimates of the global and regional incidence of neonatal herpes infection [2017]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Management of Genital Herpes in Pregnancy [2014]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Guidance on Management of Asymptomatic Neonates Born to Women With Active Genital Herpes Lesions [2013]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Herpes

HIV/AIDS in pregnancy and newborn

• Afghanistan
  • Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan
    • Prevention of Parent-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Afghanistan [2009]
• Africa
  • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
    • Lessons Learned From Early Implementation of Option B+: The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Experience in 11 African Countries [2014]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Impact of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant Women and Their Children in Africa: HIV Resistance and Treatment Outcomes [2013]
  • Topics in Antiviral Medicine
    • Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Africa [2004]
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission - Technical update [2018]
• Angola
  • PLoS ONE
    • Effectiveness of a Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Programme in an Urban Hospital in Angola [2012]
• Australia
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • The evidence for a change in antenatal HIV screening policy in Australia [2006]
• Brazil
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • HIV Prevalence among Pregnant Women in Brazil: A National Survey [2016]
  • Revista de Saúde Pública
    • Reporting of HIV-infected pregnant women: estimates from a Brazilian study [2018]
• Cameroon
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Estimating mother-to-child HIV transmission rates in Cameroon in 2011: a computer simulation approach [2016]
• Canada
  • B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
    • Care of HIV Positive Pregnant Women and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission Guidelines
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Testing for HIV infection in pregnancy [2015]
  • CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal
    • Intrapartum care of the HIV-positive woman [2014]
• China
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Obstacles to the coordination of delivering integrated prenatal HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B testing services in Guangdong: using a needs assessment approach [2015]
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Barriers and enablers of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS program in China: a systematic review and policy implications [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Uptake of Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Programs in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2015]
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections
    • Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission cascade in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Vitamin A supplements for reducing mother-to-child HIV transmission
    • Vaginal disinfection for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
    • Micronutrient supplementation in pregnant women with HIV infection
    • Male involvement for increasing the effectiveness of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programmes
    • Interventions for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
    • Interventions for preventing late postnatal mother-to-child transmission of HIV
    • Intermittent preventive treatment regimens for malaria in HIV-positive pregnant women
    • Efficacy and safety of cesarean delivery for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1
    • Antiretrovirals for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
    • Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treating HIV infection in ART-eligible pregnant women
• Democratic Republic of Congo
  • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
    • Nurses’ compliance with prevention of mother-to-child transmission national guidelines in selected sites in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo [2015]
  • AIDS
    • Temporal changes in the outcomes of HIV-exposed infants in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo during a period of rapidly evolving guidelines for care (2007–2013) [2014]
  • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
    • Maternal Combination Antiretroviral Therapy is Associated with Improved Retention of HIV-Exposed Infants in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo [2015]
• Developing countries
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Prevention and Treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Resource-Limited Settings [2005]
    • Rates, barriers and outcomes of HIV serostatus disclosure among women in developing countries: implications for prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes [2004]
  • Cochrane Library
    • Integrating prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programmes with other health services for preventing HIV infection and improving HIV outcomes in developing countries
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Community-based approaches for prevention of mother to child transmission in resource-poor settings: a social ecological review [2012]
• Dominican Republic
  • Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Progress towards Elimination of HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission in the Dominican Republic from 1999 to 2011 [2012]
• Eastern Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Increased prevalence of pregnancy and comparative risk of program attrition among individuals starting HIV treatment in East Africa [2018]
• Eastern Europe, Central Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in low-prevalence and concentrated epidemic settings in Eastern Europe and Central Asia [2011]
• El Salvador
  • PLoS ONE
    • Disparities in HIV Screening among Pregnant Women – El Salvador, 2011 [2013]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
• Europe
  • European Journal of Public Health
    • National Guidelines for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV across Europe – how do countries differ? [2013]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Children and young people with perinatal HIV in Europe: epidemiological situation in 2014 and implications for the future [2016]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • 2012 Revision - Protocol 10. Prevention of HIV transmission from HIV-infected mothers to their infants [2012]
• France
  • PLoS ONE
    • Association between Prenatal Exposure to Antiretroviral Therapy and Birth Defects: An Analysis of the French Perinatal Cohort Study (ANRS CO1/CO11) [2014]
• Germany, Austria
  • European Journal of Medical Research
    • German-austrian recommendations for HIV1-therapy in pregnancy and in HIV1-exposed newborn - update 2008 [2009]
• Ghana
  • Ghana Medical Journal
    • Review of Antenatal-Linked Voluntary Counseling and HIV Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons and Options for Ghana [2005]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Towards elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Ghana: an analysis of national programme data [2016]
• India
  • BMC Public Health
    • Systematic review of public health research on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in India with focus on provision and utilization of cascade of PMTCT services [2012]
• International
  • AIDS
    • Elective cesarean section for women living with HIV: a systematic review of risks and benefits [2017]
  • BMJ
    • Antiretroviral therapy in pregnant women living with HIV: a clinical practice guideline [2017]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • The incremental cost of switching from Option B to Option B+ for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2014]
    • Integrating antiretroviral therapy into antenatal care and maternal and child health settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
    • Country adaptation of the 2010 World Health Organization recommendations for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2012]
    • Reconsidering empirical cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for infants exposed to HIV infection [2004]
  • International AIDS Society
    • Making Motherhood and Childhood Safer: Scaling Up AIDS Services Accelerates Progress Towards All Health Goals [2010]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Sourcing Guide: The Nevirapine Infant-Dose Pouch for Use in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS Programs. Version 1 [2006]
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    • Community strategies that improve care and retention along the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV cascade: a review [2012]
  • UNAIDS
    • 2015 progress report on the global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children and keeping their mothers alive [2015]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Antenatal HIV Testing
• Kenya
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • Progress Toward Eliminating Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya: Review of Treatment Guideline Uptake and Pediatric Transmission at Four Government Hospitals Between 2010 and 2012 [2016]
  • AIDS Patient Care and STDs
    • The Role of Maternal, Health System, and Psychosocial Factors in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Failure in the Era of Programmatic Scale Up in Western Kenya: A Case Control Study [2015]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Kenya: challenges to implementation [2014]
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Evaluation of Kenya’s readiness to transition from sentinel surveillance to routine HIV testing for antenatal clinic-based HIV surveillance [2016]
• Latvia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Mission to assess readiness for validation of the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV Latvia, 23-27 May 2016 [2016]
• Lesotho
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Lesotho's Minimum PMTCT Package: lessons learned for combating vertical HIV transmission using co-packaged medicines [2012]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
    • Use of antiretrovirals during pregnancy and breastfeeding in low-income and middle-income countries [2010]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Uptake of Integrated Perinatal Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2013]
• Malawi
  • BMC International Health and Human Rights
    • Exploring the relevance of male involvement in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV services in Blantyre, Malawi [2014]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a cross-sectional study in Malawi [2018]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Impact of an Innovative Approach to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV — Malawi, July 2011–September 2012 [2013]
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • Barriers to successful implementation of prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programmes in Malawi and Nigeria: a critical literature review study [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Option B+ for HIV Prevention and Treatment of Mothers and Children in Malawi [2013]
  • Public Health Action
    • HIV testing and retention in care of infants born to HIV- infected women enrolled in ‘Option B+’, Thyolo, Malawi [2014]
• Malaysia
  • Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore
    • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in pregnancy: a review of the guidelines for preventing mother-to-child transmission in Malaysia [2012]
• Middle East, North Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: conceptual framework for the Middle East and North Africa [2012]
• Mozambique
  • Implementation Science
    • Early ART initiation among HIV-positive pregnant women in central Mozambique: a stepped wedge randomized controlled trial of an optimized Option B+ approach [2015]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • What does high and low have to do with it? Performance classification to identify health system factors associated with effective prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV delivery in Mozambique [2014]
• Netherlands
  • PLoS ONE
    • High HIV Prevalence among Asylum Seekers Who Gave Birth in the Netherlands: A Nationwide Study Based on Antenatal HIV Tests [2015]
• New Zealand
  • National Screening Unit
    • HIV Testing in Pregnancy
• Nigeria
  • BMC Public Health
    • Socio-cultural factors influencing the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nigeria: a synthesis of the literature [2014]
  • Nursing Research and Practice
    • Translating Research into Practice in Low-Resource Countries: Progress in Prevention of Maternal to Child Transmission of HIV in Nigeria [2013]
• Republic of the Congo
  • New Microbiologica
    • Pregnancy outcomes following exposure to efavirenz-based antiretroviral therapy in the Republic of Congo [2015]
• Rwanda
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • HIV surveillance in Rwanda: readiness assessment to transition from antenatal care-based to prevention of mother-to-child transmission program-based HIV surveillance [2016]
  • World Health Organization
    • Gateways to integration - a case study from Rwanda: Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS [2013]
• South Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Improved pregnancy outcomes with increasing antiretroviral coverage in South Africa [2016]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Missing HIV prevention opportunities in South African children - A 7-year review [2014]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa [2013]
  • Current HIV/AIDS Reports
    • Intersecting Epidemics Among Pregnant Women: Alcohol Use, Interpersonal Violence, and HIV Infection in South Africa [2013]
  • Department of Health South Africa
    • The National Antenatal Sentinel HIV prevalence Survey, South Africa, 2013 [2015]
    • The 2013 National Antenatal Sentinel HIV Prevalence Survey South Africa [2015]
    • The 2012 National Antenatal Sentinel HIV and Herpes Simplex type-2 prevalence Survey in South Africa [2013]
  • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
    • Timing of maternal HIV testing and uptake of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission interventions among women and their infected infants in Johannesburg, South Africa [2014]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Population–level effectiveness of PMTCT Option A on early mother–to–child (MTCT) transmission of HIV in South Africa: implications for eliminating MTCT [2016]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Optimal timing of viral load monitoring during pregnancy to predict viraemia at delivery in HIV-infected women initiating ART in South Africa: a simulation study [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Growth of HIV-Exposed Uninfected Infants in the First 6 Months of Life in South Africa: The IeDEA-SA Collaboration [2016]
    • Point-of-Care CD4 Testing to Inform Selection of Antiretroviral Medications in South African Antenatal Clinics: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis [2015]
  • South African Medical Research Council
    • Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Programme in South Africa [2013]
• Spain
  • Medicine
    • New diagnoses of human immunodeficiency virus infection in the Spanish pediatric HIV Cohort (CoRISpe) from 2004 to 2013 [2017]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Involving both parents in HIV prevention during pregnancy and breastfeeding [2018]
    • Public sector services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection: a micro-costing survey in Namibia and Rwanda [2013]
  • Current HIV/AIDS Reports
    • Adherence to HIV Care after Pregnancy among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Falling Off the Cliff of the Treatment Cascade [2015]
    • Antiretroviral drug regimens to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a review of scientific, program, and policy advances for sub-Saharan Africa [2013]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Elimination of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV Infection: The Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition Model [2015]
  • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
    • Improving Retention in Care Among Pregnant Women and Mothers Living With HIV: Lessons From INSPIRE and Implications for Future WHO Guidance and Monitoring [2017]
    • Towards Comprehensive Women's Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa: Addressing Intersections Between HIV, Reproductive and Maternal Health [2014]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Antenatal care and uptake of HIV testing among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study [2016]
    • Barriers and facilitating factors to the uptake of antiretroviral drugs for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2013]
  • Medicine
    • Implementation effectiveness of revised (post-2010) World Health Organization guidelines on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV using routinely collected data in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic literature review [2017]
  • Public Health Reviews
    • The impact of programs for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV on health care services and systems in sub-Saharan Africa - A review [2018]
  • South African Medical Research Council
    • Scaling up PMTCT impact assessments in the context of improving global maternal and child health and survival in sub-Saharan Africa [2017]
    • External mid-term, formative evaluation of the optimizing HIV treatment access (OHTA) for pregnant and breastfeeding women initiative in Uganda, Malawi, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [2015]
• Swaziland
  • World Health Organization
    • Gateways to integration - a case study from Swaziland: Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS [2011]
• Tanzania
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Virologic and immunologic failure, drug resistance and mortality during the first 24 months postpartum among HIV-infected women initiated on antiretroviral therapy for life in the Mitra plus Study, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [2015]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Development and promotion of a national website to improve dissemination of information related to the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) in Tanzania [2015]
  • Global Health Action
    • Under-five mortality and maternal HIV status in Tanzania: analysis of trends between 2003 and 2012 using AIDS Indicator Survey data [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Progress in the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Three Regions of Tanzania: A Retrospective Analysis [2014]
    • Hematological Changes in Women and Infants Exposed to an AZT-Containing Regimen for Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission of HIV in Tanzania [2013]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Effectiveness of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programmes in Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania [2014]
• Thailand
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV — Thailand [2016]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Uptake of early infant diagnosis in Thailand’s national program for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission and linkage to care, 2008–2011 [2016]
  • Journal of Virus Eradication
    • History of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Thailand [2016]
  • Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
    • Compliance with and outcomes of CD4-based national guidelines for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV for Thailand, 2006-2007 [2013]
• Trinidad and Tobago
  • Ministry of Health Trinidad and Tobago
    • Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Policy [2010]
• Uganda
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of combination antiretroviral therapy for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Uganda [2012]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • UK national clinical audit: management of pregnancies in women with HIV [2017]
  • British HIV Association
    • BHIVA guidelines for the management of HIV infection in pregnant women 2012 (2014 interim review) [2014]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) screening in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for HIV in Pregnant Women: Systematic Review to Update the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation [2012]
  • AIDS
    • Missed opportunities for prevention of mother-to-child transmission in the United States [2015]
  • AIDS Patient Care and STDs
    • Trends in Antiretroviral Drug Use During Pregnancy Among HIV-Infected Women on Medicaid: 2000–2007 [2014]
  • AIDSinfo
    • Recommendations for Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant HIV-1-Infected Women for Maternal Health and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal HIV Transmission in the United States
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • HIV Testing and Prophylaxis to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission in the United States [2014]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Prenatal and Perinatal Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing - Expanded Recommendations [2015]
  • Body: An AIDS and HIV Information Resource
    • Pregnancy & HIV/AIDS
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Pregnant Women, Infants, and Children
  • Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Management of HIV Infection during Pregnancy in the United States: Updated Evidence-Based Recommendations and Future Potential Practices [2016]
    • The Effects of Viral Load Burden on Pregnancy Loss among HIV-Infected Women in the United States [2015]
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Perinatal Transmission of HIV
  • New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
    • Pregnancy
  • PLoS ONE
    • Mode of Delivery among HIV-Infected Pregnant Women in Philadelphia, 2005-2013 [2015]
  • Topics in Antiviral Medicine
    • Prevention of perinatal HIV transmission: the Perinatal HIV Hotline perspective [2011]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO recommendation: Elective C-section should not be routinely recommended to women living with HIV [2018]
    • Monitoring & evaluation framework for antiretroviral treatment for pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV and their infants [2015]
    • Guidelines for conducting HIV surveillance among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics based on routine programme data [2015]
    • Safety of efavirenz in the first trimester of pregnancy: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]
    • Antiretroviral treatment for pregnant and breastfeeding women – the shifting paradigm [2014]
    • Toolkit, expanding and simplifying treatment for pregnant women living with HIV [2013]
    • Surveillance of antiretroviral drug toxicity during pregnancy and breastfeeding [2013]
    • Guidelines for assessing the utility of data from prevention of mother-to-child transmission [2013]
    • Use of efavirenz during pregnancy: A public health perspective [2012]
    • Use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants [2012]
    • Report of the meeting of the paediatric working group developing an optimized list of paediatric ARV formulations [2012]
    • Preventing HIV and unintended pregnancies: strategic framework 2011-2015 [2012]
    • Measuring the impact of national PMTCT programmes: Towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive [2012]
    • Male involvement in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2012]
    • Global monitoring framework and strategy for the Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive [2012]
    • Vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2011]
    • Towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: report of a WHO technical consultation, 9-11 November 2010, Geneva, Switzerland [2011]
    • Meeting report: 2011 annual meeting of the interagency task team on prevention and treatment of HIV infection in pregnant women, mothers and their children [2011]
    • Annual meeting of the Interagency Task Team on Prevention and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Children [2011]
    • Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants. Version 2 [2010]
    • PMTCT strategic vision 2010-2015 : preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals : moving towards the elimination of paediatric HIV, December 2009 [2010]
    • Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants. Recommendations for a public health approach. 2010 Revision [2010]
    • Technical consultation on the integration of HIV interventions into maternal, newborn and child health services [2008]
    • Linkages between sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV [2007]
    • Guidance on global scale-up of the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV : towards universal access for women, infants and young children and eliminating HIV and AIDS among children [2007]
    • Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants: towards universal access. Recommendations for a public health approach. 2006 Version [2006]
    • HIV and nutrition: pregnant and lactating women [2005]
    • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Children: Guidelines for Women Living with HIV/AIDS and Their Children in Resource-Constrained Settings [2004]
    • HIV-infected women and their families: Psychosocial support and related issues [2003]
    • New data on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and their policy implications [2001]
    • Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
• Zambia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Longitudinal adherence to antiretroviral drugs for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zambia [2015]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Universal combination antiretroviral regimens to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in rural Zambia: a two-round cross-sectional study [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Health Outcomes and Cost Impact of the New WHO 2013 Guidelines on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Zambia [2014]
• Zimbabwe
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Cost-effectiveness of World Health Organization 2010 Guidelines for Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in Zimbabwe [2013]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • What Will It Take to Eliminate Pediatric HIV? Reaching WHO Target Rates of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in Zimbabwe: A Model-Based Analysis [2012]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Evaluating the Impact of Zimbabwe’s Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Program: Population-Level Estimates of HIV-Free Infant Survival Pre-Option A [2015]
    • Integration of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Postpartum Services with Other HIV Care and Treatment Services within the Maternal and Child Health Setting in Zimbabwe, 2012 [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • HIV/AIDS in children and adolescents
    • HIV/AIDS and breastfeeding/infant feeding
    • HIV/AIDS

Infections in pregnancy

• America
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • EMTCT Plus. Framework for elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B, and Chagas [2017]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
    • SOMANZ guidelines for the investigation and management sepsis in pregnancy [2017]
• Brazil
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Systematic review: Prevalence of Chagas disease in pregnant women and congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in Brazil: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]
• China
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Systematic review of human listeriosis in China, 1964–2010 [2013]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Vaginal chlorhexidine during labour for preventing maternal and neonatal infections (excluding Group B Streptococcal and HIV)
    • Prophylactic antibiotic administration during second and third trimester in pregnancy for preventing infectious morbidity and mortality
    • Effect of administration of antihelminthics for soil transmitted helminths during pregnancy
    • Antibiotic regimens for management of intraamniotic infection
    • Antibiotic prophylaxis during the second and third trimester to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes and morbidity
    • Amnioinfusion for chorioamnionitis
• Ecuador
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • A National Survey to Determine Prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection among Pregnant Women in Ecuador [2015]
• El Salvador
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Mother-to-Child Transmission of Chagas Disease in El Salvador [2015]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of antenatal screening for HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis and rubella susceptibility [2017]
    • Antenatal screening for HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis and rubella susceptibility in the EU/EEA – addressing the vulnerable populations [2017]
    • Antenatal screening approaches effective in preventing MTCT of HIV, HBV, syphilis and rubella in vulnerable populations [2017]
    • Antenatal screening for HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis and rubella susceptibility in the EU/EEA [2016]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Screening for Coxiella burnetii infection during pregnancy: pros and cons according to the Wilson and Jungner criteria [2012]
    • Prevention of congenital and perinatal infections [2009]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Control and management of congenital Chagas disease in Europe and other non-endemic countries: current policies and practices [2016]
• France
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Pregnancy-related listeriosis in France, 1984 to 2011, with a focus on 606 cases from 1999 to 2011 [2014]
• Haiti
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Cholera in Pregnancy: Outcomes from a Specialized Cholera Treatment Unit for Pregnant Women in Léogâne, Haiti [2013]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Praziquantel for the treatment of schistosomiasis during human pregnancy [2018]
  • Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    • Maternal Infections e-Learning Course [2015]
  • Médecins Sans Frontières
    • Ebola viral disease and pregnancy [2015]
    • Cholera in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Fetal, Neonatal, and Maternal Mortality [2015]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Towards a consensus definition of maternal sepsis: results of a systematic review and expert consultation [2017]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Measles exposure during pregnancy - guidelines [2010]
    • Pregnancy
• Mongolia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Burden of Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Pregnant Women and Infants Under 6 Months in Mongolia: A Prospective Cohort Study [2016]
• Mozambique
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The triple threat of pregnancy, HIV infection and malaria: reported causes of maternal mortality in two nationwide health facility assessments in Mozambique, 2007 and 2012 [2015]
• Namibia
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Measles immunity among pregnant women aged 15–44 years in Namibia, 2008 and 2010 [2016]
• Philippines
  • PLoS ONE
    • Fear of Birth Defects Is a Major Barrier to Soil-Transmitted Helminth Treatment (STH) for Pregnant Women in the Philippines [2014]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Medicine
    • Achieving development goals for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa through integrated antenatal care: barriers and challenges [2016]
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty
    • Development, coinfection, and the syndemics of pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa [2013]
  • PLoS ONE
    • A Multi-Country Cross-Sectional Study of Vaginal Carriage of Group B Streptococci (GBS) and Escherichia coli in Resource-Poor Settings: Prevalences and Risk Factors [2016]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Heterogeneity in testing practices for infections during pregnancy: national survey across Switzerland [2016]
• Tanzania
  • Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety
    • Implementation of co-trimoxazole preventive therapy policy for malaria in HIV-infected pregnant women in the public health facilities in Tanzania [2016]
• Uganda
  • Parasitology
    • Treatment with anthelminthics during pregnancy: what gains and what risks for the mother and child? [2011]
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal morbidity and mortality from severe sepsis: a national cohort study [2016]
  • Public Health England
    • Rash in pregnancy
    • NHS infectious diseases in pregnancy screening (IDPS) programme
    • Investigation of pregnant women exposed to rash illness
    • Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening: programme standards
    • Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening: care pathway
    • Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening programme: laboratory handbook
    • Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening programme handbook
    • Ebola in pregnancy: information for healthcare workers
    • Analysing antenatal infections national data: methods
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Chickenpox in Pregnancy [2015]
    • Sepsis in Pregnancy, Bacterial [2012]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Varicella susceptibility screening in pregnancy
    • Parvovirus B19 Infection in Pregnancy
    • HTLV (human t-cell lymphotropic virus) screening in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Sulfonamides, Nitrofurantoin, and Risk of Birth Defects [2017]
    • Intrapartum Management of Intraamniotic Infection [2017]
    • Management of Pregnant Women With Presumptive Exposure to Listeria monocytogenes [2014]
    • Obstetrician-Gynecologists and Perinatal Infections: A Review of Studies of the Collaborative Ambulatory Research Network (2005–2009) [2010]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Special Considerations for Prophylaxis for and Treatment of Anthrax in Pregnant and Postpartum Women [2014]
    • Pregnant Travelers
  • Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • A First Look at Chorioamnionitis Management Practice Variation among US Obstetricians [2012]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Statement on maternal sepsis [2017]
    • WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of maternal peripartum infections [2015]
    • Saving mothers and newborn lives in the face of the devastating Ebola outbreak [2014]
    • Capacity building workshop for the Global Fund proposal writing to include MNH service delivery area for health systems strengthening [2009]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Zika virus infection in pregnancy and newborn
    • Vaccines in pregnancy
    • Urinary tract infections in pregnancy
    • Tuberculosis in pregnancy
    • Trichomoniasis in pregnancy
    • Toxoplasmosis
    • Tetanus in pregnancy and newborn
    • Sexually transmitted diseases in pregnancy
    • Rubella
    • Postpartum infections
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Neonatal infections
    • Malaria in pregnancy
    • Influenza A (H1N1) in pregnancy
    • Herpes infections in pregnancy and newborn
    • Hepatitis in pregnancy and newborn
    • Hepatitis
    • HIV/AIDS in pregnancy and newborn
    • HIV/AIDS
    • Group B streptococcal infections
    • Gonorrhea in pregnancy and newborn
    • Genital infections, sexually transmitted diseases
    • Cytomegalovirus
    • Congenital syphilis
    • Chlamydia infection in pregnancy
    • Candidiasis in pregnancy and newborn
    • Bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy

Influenza A (H1N1) in pregnancy

• Australia
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Quantifying the risk of pandemic influenza in pregnancy and Indigenous people in Australia in 2009 [2009]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • H1N1 and influenza viruses. Why pregnant women might be hesitant to be vaccinated [2011]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • H1N1 Management Guideline for Pregnant Women & Neonates [2011]
• India
  • Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Influenza and Pregnancy: A Review of the Literature from India [2015]
• Netherlands
  • Health Council of the Netherlands
    • Vaccination of pregnant women against seasonal influenza 2010-2011 [2010]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Ethical Issues in Pandemic Influenza Planning Concerning Pregnant Women [2013]
  • American Journal of Infection Control
    • General influenza infection control policies and practices during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic: A survey of women’s health, obstetric, and neonatal nurses [2014]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Maternal and Infant Outcomes Among Severely Ill Pregnant and Postpartum Women with 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) --- United States, April 2009--August 2010 [2011]
  • JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association
    • Pandemic 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Virus Illness Among Pregnant Women in the United States [2010]
  • Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing
    • Influenza Infection Control Practices in Labor and Delivery Units During the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic [2013]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Pregnancy and pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009: information for programme managers and clinicians [2010]
    • Pandemic influenza in pregnant women [2009]
    • WHO Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Infections in pregnancy

Malaria in pregnancy

• Afghanistan
  • Malaria Journal
    • Towards a strategy for malaria in pregnancy in Afghanistan: analysis of clinical realities and women’s perceptions of malaria and anaemia [2015]
• Africa
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Moving malaria in pregnancy programs from neglect to priority: experience from Malawi, Senegal, and Zambia [2014]
  • Malaria Journal
    • Rationale for short course primaquine in Africa to interrupt malaria transmission [2013]
    • Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in Africa: What's new, what's needed? [2007]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Social and Cultural Factors Affecting Uptake of Interventions for Malaria in Pregnancy in Africa: A Systematic Review of the Qualitative Research [2011]
  • World Health Organization
    • Protecting all pregnant women and children under five years living in malaria endemic areas in Africa with insecticide treated mosquito nets [2006]
• Africa, Asia
  • PLoS Medicine
    • First-trimester artemisinin derivatives and quinine treatments and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in Africa and Asia: A meta-analysis of observational studies [2017]
• Africa, Western Pacific
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative, a pooled birth cohort of 13 pregnancy studies in Africa and the Western Pacific [2016]
• Benin
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Prevention of Malaria during Pregnancy: Assessing the Effect of the Distribution of IPTp Through the National Policy in Benin [2011]
• Bolivia
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Plasmodium vivax Malaria during Pregnancy, Bolivia [2013]
• Brazil
  • Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
    • A decade of malaria during pregnancy in Brazil: what has been done concerning prevention and management [2014]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Costs Associated with Malaria in Pregnancy in the Brazilian Amazon, a Low Endemic Area Where Plasmodium vivax Predominates [2016]
• China
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Congenital Malaria in China [2014]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Mefloquine for preventing malaria in pregnant women
    • Insecticide-treated nets for preventing malaria in pregnancy
    • Drugs for treating uncomplicated malaria in pregnant women
    • Drugs for preventing malaria in pregnant women in endemic areas: any drug regimen versus placebo or no treatment
• Gabon
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Antenatal care visit attendance, intermittent preventive treatment and bed net use during pregnancy in Gabon [2013]
• Ghana
  • Ghana Health Service
    • Malaria in pregnancy: Training manual for health providers [2015]
• Indonesia
  • Malaria Journal
    • Performance of four HRP-2/pLDH combination rapid diagnostic tests and field microscopy as screening tests for malaria in pregnancy in Indonesia: a cross-sectional study [2015]
• International
  • Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium
    • Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Women's Access and Provider Practices for the Case Management of Malaria during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2014]
• Kenya
  • Malaria Journal
    • Effectiveness of the delivery of interventions to prevent malaria in pregnancy in Kenya [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Knowledge and Adherence to the National Guidelines for Malaria Case Management in Pregnancy among Healthcare Providers and Drug Outlet Dispensers in Rural, Western Kenya [2016]
• Malawi
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Perspectives of health care providers on the provision of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in health facilities in Malawi [2015]
  • FANTA (Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project)
    • The Impact of Antenatal Azithromycin and Monthly Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine on Child Mortality, Morbidity, and Growth [2016]
  • Malaria Journal
    • The use of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy and insecticide-treated bed nets for malaria prevention by women of child-bearing age in eight districts in Malawi [2015]
• Mali
  • Malaria Journal
    • “There is no free here, you have to pay”: actual and perceived costs as barriers to intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Mali [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Underreporting and Missed Opportunities for Uptake of Intermittent Preventative Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy (IPTp) in Mali [2016]
    • Effectiveness of Antenatal Clinics to Deliver Intermittent Preventive Treatment and Insecticide Treated Nets for the Control of Malaria in Pregnancy in Mali: A Household Survey [2014]
    • Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy with Intermittent Preventive Treatment and Insecticide Treated Nets in Mali: A Quantitative Health Systems Effectiveness Analysis [2013]
    • A Qualitative Health Systems Effectiveness Analysis of the Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy with Intermittent Preventive Treatment and Insecticide Treated Nets in Mali [2013]
• Mozambique
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy in central Mozambique [2007]
• Nigeria
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Barriers to and determinants of the use of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Cross River State, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study [2016]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Determinants of use of insecticide-treated nets among pregnant women in Nigeria [2015]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Burden of Malaria in Early Pregnancy: A Neglected Problem? [2014]
  • Clinical Microbiology Reviews
    • Impact of Malaria during Pregnancy on Low Birth Weight in Sub-Saharan Africa [2004]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Prevalence of malaria infection in pregnant women compared with children for tracking malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]
    • Cost-effectiveness of two versus three or more doses of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria during pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa: a modelling study of meta-analysis and cost data [2015]
  • Malaria Journal
    • Cost-effectiveness of malaria preventive treatment for HIV-infected pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa [2017]
    • Factors affecting providers' delivery of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: a five-country analysis of national service provision assessment surveys [2014]
    • Assessment of the consistency of national-level policies and guidelines for malaria in pregnancy in five African countries [2014]
    • Why are IPTp coverage targets so elusive in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review of health system barriers [2013]
    • Prevention and management of malaria during pregnancy: findings from a comparative qualitative study in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi [2013]
    • Ownership and use of insecticide-treated nets during pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa: a review [2013]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Mortality, Morbidity, and Developmental Outcomes in Infants Born to Women Who Received Either Mefloquine or Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine as Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy: A Cohort Study [2016]
    • Factors Affecting the Delivery, Access, and Use of Interventions to Prevent Malaria in Pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2013]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Policies and Actions for Improved Malaria in Pregnancy Efforts in Communities [2015]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: at the crossroads of public health policy [2011]
  • Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
    • Impact of Placental Plasmodium falciparum Malaria on Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcome in Sub-Saharan Africa: part III: placental malaria, maternal health, and public health [2008]
    • Impact of placental Plasmodium falciparum malaria on pregnancy and perinatal outcome in sub-Saharan Africa: II: effects of placental malaria on perinatal outcome; malaria and HIV [2007]
    • Impact of Placental Plasmodium falciparum Malaria on Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcome in Sub-Saharan Africa: I: Introduction to Placental Malaria [2007]
• Sudan
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • A perspective of the epidemiology of malaria and anaemia and their impact on maternal and perinatal outcomes in Sudan [2011]
• Tanzania
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Psychosocial, behavioural and health system barriers to delivery and uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Tanzania – viewpoints of service providers in Mkuranga and Mufindi districts [2014]
    • Feasibility and coverage of implementing intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnant women contacting private or public clinics in Tanzania: experience-based viewpoints of health managers in Mkuranga and Mufindi districts [2013]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Predictors for uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) in Tanzania [2015]
• Uganda
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • A new strategy and its effect on adherence to intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Uganda [2013]
  • Drugs in R&D
    • Trimester-Specific Population Pharmacokinetics and Other Correlates of Variability in Sulphadoxine–Pyrimethamine Disposition Among Ugandan Pregnant Women [2015]
  • Malaria Journal
    • Treatment and prevention of malaria in pregnancy in the private health sector in Uganda: implications for patient safety [2016]
    • Assessing supply-side barriers to uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: a qualitative study and document and record review in two regions of Uganda [2016]
    • Intermittent use of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for malaria prevention: a cross-sectional study of knowledge and practices among Ugandan women attending an urban antenatal clinic [2014]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The prevention of malaria in pregnancy [2010]
    • The diagnosis and treatment of malaria in pregnancy [2010]
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Updated CDC Recommendations for Using Artemether-Lumefantrine for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Malaria in Pregnant Women in the United States [2018]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Implementing malaria in pregnancy programs in the context of World Health Organization recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience [2018]
    • Malaria position paper [2016]
    • WHO policy brief for the implementation of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) [2014]
    • WHO Evidence Review Group: intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) [2012]
    • Updated WHO policy recommendation: intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) [2012]
    • Assessment of the safety of artemisinin compounds in pregnancy [2007]
    • Malaria in pregnant women
    • Lives at risk: malaria in pregnancy
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Neonatal infections

• Africa, Asia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Treatment of neonatal infections: a multi-country analysis of health system bottlenecks and potential solutions [2015]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Management of term infants at increased risk for early onset bacterial sepsis [2017]
    • Preventing ophthalmia neonatorum [2015]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Newborn Eye Prophylaxis and Prevention of Opthalmia Neonatorum [2015]
• China
  • Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
    • Outbreak of plasmid-mediated NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST105 among neonatal patients in Yunnan, China [2016]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Vancomycin for prophylaxis against sepsis in preterm neonates
    • Umbilical cord antiseptics for preventing sepsis and death among newborns
    • Topical umbilical cord care at birth
    • Topical emollient for preventing infection in preterm infants
    • Recombinant human activated protein C for severe sepsis in neonates
    • Prophylactic versus selective antibiotics for term newborn infants of mothers with risk factors for neonatal infection
    • Prophylactic systemic antibiotics to reduce morbidity and mortality in neonates with central venous catheters
    • Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce morbidity and mortality in newborn infants with intercostal catheters
    • Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce morbidity and mortality in neonates with umbilical venous catheters
    • Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce morbidity and mortality in neonates with umbilical artery catheters
    • Pneumococcal vaccination during pregnancy for preventing infant infection
    • Oral immunoglobulin for the treatment of rotavirus diarrhoea in low birth weight infants
    • Oral immunoglobulin for the prevention of rotavirus infection in low birth weight infants
    • One dose per day compared to multiple doses per day of gentamicin for treatment of suspected or proven sepsis in neonates
    • Molecular assays for the diagnosis of sepsis in neonates
    • Intravenous immunoglobulin for suspected or subsequently proven infection in neonates
    • Intravenous immunoglobulin for preventing infection in preterm and/or low-birth-weight infants
    • Granulocyte transfusions for neonates with confirmed or suspected sepsis and neutropaenia
    • G-CSF and GM-CSF for treating or preventing neonatal infections
    • Erythromycin for the prevention of chronic lung disease in intubated preterm infants at risk for, or colonized or infected with Ureaplasma urealyticum
    • Early removal versus expectant management of central venous catheters in neonates with bloodstream infection
    • Early planned removal versus expectant management of peripherally inserted central catheters to prevent infection in newborn infants
    • Early planned removal of umbilical venous catheters to prevent infection in newborn infants
    • Diazepam for treating tetanus
    • Chlorhexidine skin or cord care for prevention of mortality and infections in neonates
    • Antimicrobial-impregnated central venous catheters for prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infection in newborn infants
    • Antimicrobial dressings for the prevention of catheter-related infections in newborn infants with central venous catheters
    • Antibiotics at the time of removal of central venous catheter to reduce morbidity and mortality in newborn infants
    • Antibiotic regimens for suspected early neonatal sepsis
    • Antibiotic lock for the prevention of catheter-related infection in neonates
• Croatia
  • Medicinski Glasnik
    • Differences in newborn umbilical cord care [2015]
• Cuba
  • MEDICC Review
    • Implementing ACCM Critical Care Guidelines for Septic Shock Management in a Cuban Pediatric Intensive Care Unit [2014]
• Developing countries
  • BMC Public Health
    • The effect of umbilical cord cleansing with chlorhexidine on omphalitis and neonatal mortality in community settings in developing countries: a meta-analysis [2013]
  • Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
    • Rational development of guidelines for management of neonatal sepsis in developing countries [2015]
• Europe
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • High variability in the dosing of commonly used antibiotics revealed by a Europe-wide point prevalence study: implications for research and dissemination [2015]
• France
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood
    • Therapeutic guidelines for prescribing antibiotics in neonates should be evidence-based: a French national survey [2015]
• India
  • Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
    • Antibiotic Prescribing Pattern in a Tertiary Level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [2015]
• International
  • Pediatric Research
    • Neonatal severe bacterial infection impairment estimates in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America for 2010 [2013]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • From Research to Use: Saving Newborn Lives with Chlorhexidine for Umbilical Cord Care [2018]
  • Vaccine
    • Neonatal infections: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunisation safety data [2016]
• Italy
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • The use of ciprofloxacin and fluconazole in Italian neonatal intensive care units: a nationwide survey [2013]
  • Italian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Revised recommendations concerning palivizumab prophylaxis for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) [2015]
    • Inter-society consensus document on treatment and prevention of bronchiolitis in newborns and infants [2014]
• Kuwait
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Microbiological contamination of mobile phones of clinicians in intensive care units and neonatal care units in public hospitals in Kuwait [2015]
• Latvia
  • Medicina
    • Antimicrobial usage among hospitalized children in Latvia: A neonatal and pediatric antimicrobial point prevalence survey [2014]
• Low-income countries
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Burden of bacterial resistance among neonatal infections in low income countries: how convincing is the epidemiological evidence? [2015]
• Low-resource settings
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
    • An Innovative Multipartner Research Program to Address Detection, Assessment and Treatment of Neonatal Infections in Low-resource Settings [2013]
• Nicaragua
  • International Journal for Quality in Health Care
    • Quality in practice: preventing and managing neonatal sepsis in Nicaragua [2013]
• Republic of Korea
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Blood Culture Proven Early Onset Sepsis and Late Onset Sepsis in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants in Korea [2015]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
    • Estimates of possible severe bacterial infection in neonates in sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, and Latin America for 2012: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]
    • Maternal and early onset neonatal bacterial sepsis: burden and strategies for prevention in sub-Saharan Africa [2009]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Society of Neonatology
    • Recommendations for term and late preterm infants at risk for perinatal bacterial infection [2013]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Antibiotics for neonatal infection [2014]
    • Antibiotics for early-onset neonatal infection: Antibiotics for the prevention and treatment of early-onset neonatal infection [2012]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Umbilical Cord Care in the Newborn Infant [2016]
    • Strategies for Prevention of Health Care–Associated Infections in the NICU [2016]
    • Management of Neonates With Suspected or Proven Early-Onset Bacterial Sepsis [2016]
    • Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Health Care–Associated Infections in the NICU [2016]
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Association between Vancomycin Trough Concentration and Area under the Concentration-Time Curve in Neonates [2014]
  • Clinics in Perinatology
    • New Antibiotic Dosing [2014]
  • Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
    • The Association of State Legal Mandates for Data Submission of Central Line-associated Blood Stream Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Units with Process and Outcome Measures [2014]
  • Journal of Pediatrics
    • Reappraisal of Guidelines for Management of Neonates with Suspected Early-Onset Sepsis [2015]
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Neonatal Sepsis
  • National Perinatal Association
    • National Perinatal Association 2018 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Prevention Clinical Practice Guideline: An Evidence-Based Interdisciplinary Collaboration [2017]
  • Pediatrics
    • Role of Guidelines on Length of Therapy in Chorioamnionitis and Neonatal Sepsis [2014]
  • Society of Critical Care Medicine
    • American College of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Parameters for Hemodynamic Support of Pediatric and Neonatal Septic Shock [2017]
• Vietnam
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Reducing neonatal infections in south and south central Vietnam: the views of healthcare providers [2013]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Managing possible serious bacterial infection in young infants when referral is not feasible [2017]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Zika virus infection in pregnancy and newborn
    • Tuberculosis in pregnancy
    • Trichomoniasis in pregnancy
    • Toxoplasmosis
    • Tetanus in pregnancy and newborn
    • Sexually transmitted diseases in pregnancy
    • Rubella
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Neonatology
    • Malaria in pregnancy
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Herpes infections in pregnancy and newborn
    • Hepatitis in pregnancy and newborn
    • Hepatitis
    • HIV/AIDS in pregnancy and newborn
    • HIV/AIDS
    • Group B streptococcal infections
    • Gonorrhea in pregnancy and newborn
    • Genital infections, sexually transmitted diseases
    • Cytomegalovirus
    • Congenital syphilis
    • Chlamydia infection in pregnancy
    • Candidiasis in pregnancy and newborn
    • Bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy

Postpartum infections

• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Routine antibiotic prophylaxis after normal vaginal birth for reducing maternal infectious morbidity
    • Prophylactic antibiotics for manual removal of retained placenta in vaginal birth
    • Antibiotic regimens for postpartum endometritis
• Low and middle-income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Effect of Puerperal Infections on Early Neonatal Mortality: A Secondary Analysis of Six Demographic and Health Surveys [2017]
• Tanzania
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Evaluation of a Clean Delivery Kit Intervention in Preventing Cord Infection and Puerperal Sepsis in Mwanza, Tanzania [2005]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Sepsis following Pregnancy, Bacterial [2012]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Managing puerperal sepsis [2006]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Postpartum (puerperium)
    • Infections in pregnancy

Rubella

• Africa
  • BMC Research Notes
    • Serological makers of rubella infection in Africa in the pre vaccination era: a systematic review [2015]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Rubella Epidemiology in Africa in the Prevaccine Era, 2002–2009 [2011]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: rubella 2008–2012 [2015]
  • NSW Ministry of Health
    • Rubella
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • Using the two-source capture–recapture method to estimate the incidence and case ascertainment of congenital rubella syndrome in Australia, 1993–2013 [2016]
• Cameroon
  • International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
    • Identification of Ocular and Auditory Manifestations of Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Mbingo [2014]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Prevention of congenital rubella syndrome [2016]
  • Government of Canada
    • Rubella Vaccine
    • Rubella
• Chile
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Rubella Outbreaks Following Virus Importations: The Experience of Chile [2011]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella in children
    • Post-exposure passive immunisation for preventing rubella and congenital rubella syndrome
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Rubella
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Public Health
    • Epidemiology of rubella virus cases in the pre-vaccination era of Ethiopia, 2009–2015 [2016]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Measles and rubella surveillance - 2017 [2018]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • 5th meeting of the European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (2017) [2017]
    • 9th Meeting of the Measles Rubella Reference Laboratories of the WHO European Region [2014]
    • Measles and rubella elimination 2015. Package for accelerated action: 2013-2015 [2013]
    • Guidelines for measles and rubella outbreak investigation and response in the WHO European Region [2013]
    • Guidance on conducting serosurveys in support of measles and rubella elimination in the WHO European Region (2013) [2013]
    • Surveillance guidelines for measles, rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the WHO European Region [2012]
    • Eliminating measles and rubella: framework for the verification process in the WHO European Region [2012]
    • Measles and rubella
• Fiji
  • Journal of Tropical Medicine
    • Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Fiji, 1995–2010 [2013]
• France
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Eurosurveillance | Resurgence risk for measles, mumps and rubella in France in 2018 and 2020 [2018]
• India
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • IAP perspectives on measles and rubella elimination strategies [2014]
  • Indian Journal of Public Health
    • Targeting rubella for elimination [2012]
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Assessment of readiness for measles–rubella supplementary immunization activity, India, 2018 [2018]
• International
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Progress in Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Control and Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2016 [2017]
    • Global Progress Toward Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Control and Elimination — 2000–2014 [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Using Seroprevalence and Immunisation Coverage Data to Estimate the Global Burden of Congenital Rubella Syndrome, 1996-2010: A Systematic Review [2016]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Rubella
• Italy
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Congenital rubella still a public health problem in Italy: analysis of national surveillance data from 2005 to 2013 [2015]
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • Surveillance and vaccination coverage of measles and rubella in Northern Italy [2014]
    • Progress in the elimination of measles and congenital rubella in Central Italy [2013]
• Japan
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Investigating the immunizing effect of the rubella epidemic in Japan, 2012-14 [2015]
• Namibia
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Rubella immunity among pregnant women aged 15–44 years, Namibia, 2010 [2016]
• Philippines
  • International Journal of Pediatrics
    • Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome in the Philippines: A Systematic Review [2016]
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • The burden of congenital rubella syndrome in the Philippines: results from a retrospective assessment [2017]
• Solomon Islands
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • An outbreak investigation of congenital rubella syndrome in Solomon Islands, 2013 [2016]
• South-East Asia
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Progress towards control of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome – South-East Asia Region, 2000–2016 [2018]
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • Strategic plan for measles elimination and rubella and congenital rubella syndrome control in the South-East Asia Region, 2014-2020 [2015]
    • Measles elimination and rubella/congenital rubella syndrome control: Report of a regional consultation, Kathmandu, Nepal, 19-22 February 2013 [2013]
    • Rubella
• Taiwan
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Is birth cohort 1985/9–1990/8 a susceptibility window for congenital rubella syndrome in Taiwan? [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Eurosurveillance | Rubella infection in pregnancy and congenital rubella in United Kingdom, 2003 to 2016 [2018]
  • Public Health England
    • Rubella (German measles): guidance, data and analysis
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Rubella susceptibility screening in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Prevention of Measles, Rubella, Congenital Rubella Syndrome, and Mumps, 2013: Summary Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) [2013]
    • Use of combination measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) [2010]
    • Rubella (German Measles) Vaccination
    • Rubella
    • Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine Safety
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Rubella (German Measles)
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Rubella [2017]
    • Introducing Rubella Vaccine into National Immunization Programmes. A step by step guide [2015]
    • Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome control and elimination – global progress, 2012 [2013]
    • Global measles and rubella strategic plan: 2012-2020 [2012]
    • The immunological basis for immunization series: module 11: rubella [2008]
    • Rubella
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Sexually transmitted diseases in pregnancy

• America
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in the Americas. Update 2016 [2017]
    • Field Guide for Implementation of the Strategy and Plan of Action for Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis in the Americas [2014]
    • 2012 Progress Report: Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis in the Americas [2013]
• Australia
  • Australasian Sexual Health Alliance
    • Pregnant women
  • Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
    • Antenatal Testing and Blood-Borne Viruses (BBVs) 2015 [2015]
• China
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Integrated prevention of mother-to-child transmission for human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis and hepatitis B virus in China [2015]
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Towards eliminating perinatal transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B in Yunnan: a case study, 2005-2012 [2015]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Antibiotics for ureaplasma in the vagina in pregnancy
• Japan
  • Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Current Status of Condylomata Acuminata in Pregnant Japanese Women [2016]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Strategy and Plan of Action for Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean: Regional Monitoring Strategy. 3. ed. [2013]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    • Prevalence of Curable Sexually Transmitted Infections in Pregnant Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries From 2010 to 2015 [2016]
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • STDs & Pregnancy
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Expert Consultation on Triple Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B and Syphilis in the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines, 20-21 February 2017 : meeting report [2017]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Sexually transmitted diseases
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Tetanus in pregnancy and newborn

• Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus
• Cameroon
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in Cameroon, 2012 [2013]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Vaccines for women for preventing neonatal tetanus
• Comoros
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of neonatal tetanus elimination in Burundi and the Comoros by a lot quality assurance cluster sampling survey, 1 October 2008– 30 September 2009 [2011]
• Equatorial Guinea
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in Equatorial Guinea, 2016 [2017]
• India
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination: validation survey in 4 States and 2 union territories in India, May 2015 [2015]
• Indonesia
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Maternal and neonatal tetanus validation assessment in Region 4, Indonesia [2016]
• International
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Introducing TT Uniject in Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination [2003]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • Eliminating Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus [2004]
• Laos
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination: validation surveys in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, December 2013 [2015]
• Liberia
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in Liberia, 2011 [2012]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • BMC Public Health
    • Interventions to reduce neonatal mortality from neonatal tetanus in low and middle income countries - a systematic review [2013]
• Mozambique
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of elimination: maternal and neonatal tetanus in Mozambique, 2010 [2011]
• Pakistan
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Neonatal tetanus elimination in Pakistan: progress and challenges [2012]
• Tanzania
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in United Republic of Tanzania, 2012 [2013]
• Timor-Leste
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in Timor-Leste, 2012 [2012]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Tetanus vaccines: WHO position paper – February 2017 [2017]
    • Neonatal Tetanus
    • Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) elimination
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Toxoplasmosis

• Austria
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Prevalence and incidence of toxoplasmosis: a retrospective analysis of mother-child examinations, Styria, Austria, 1995 to 2012 [2016]
• Brazil
  • Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
    • Programs for control of congenital toxoplasmosis [2011]
• China
  • Parasites and Vectors
    • Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans in China [2011]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Treatments for toxoplasmosis in pregnancy
    • Prenatal education for congenital toxoplasmosis
• Colombia
  • Parasites and Vectors
    • An overview of seventy years of research (1944-2014) on toxoplasmosis in Colombia, South America [2014]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Congenital toxoplasmosis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2015 [2018]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Survey of European programmes for the epidemiological surveillance of congenital toxoplasmosis [2008]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • The global burden of congenital toxoplasmosis: a systematic review [2013]
• Iran
  • Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine
    • Toxoplasmosis in Iran: A guide for general physicians working in the Iranian health network setting: A systematic review [2016]
  • Iranian Journal of Reproductive Medicine
    • Prevalence of immunity to toxoplasmosis among Iranian childbearing age women: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Toxoplasmosis
• Italy
  • New Microbiologica
    • Multidisciplinary approach to congenital Toxoplasma infection: an Italian nationwide survey [2014]
• Kyrgyzstan
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Kyrgyzstan: Seroprevalence, Risk Factor Analysis, and Estimate of Congenital and AIDS-Related Toxoplasmosis [2013]
• Mexico
  • Parasites and Vectors
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of Toxoplasma gondii infection among the Mexican population [2012]
  • Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
    • Toxoplasmosis in Mexico: epidemiological situation in humans and animals [2015]
• Morocco
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • Review of toxoplasmosis in Morocco: seroprevalence and risk factors for toxoplasma infection among pregnant women and HIV- infected patients [2017]
• Portugal
  • BMJ Open
    • Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in the Portuguese population: comparison of three cross-sectional studies spanning three decades [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Toxoplasmosis screening in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Congenital Toxoplasmosis in the United States [2017]
  • Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Survey of obstetrician-gynecologists in the United States about toxoplasmosis: 2012 Update [2014]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Toxoplasmosis
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Trichomoniasis in pregnancy

• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Interventions for trichomoniasis in pregnancy
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Trichomoniasis
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Tuberculosis in pregnancy

• Europe, United States of America
  • TBNET
    • Pregnancy in patients with tuberculosis: a TBNET cross-sectional survey [2016]
• International
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Tuberculosis in Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Epidemiology, Management, and Research Gaps [2012]
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Perspectives on tuberculosis in pregnancy [2015]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Tuberculosis in pregnancy: an estimate of the global burden of disease [2014]
• Israel
  • Israel Medical Association Journal
    • Tuberculosis during Pregnancy in Northern Israel, 2002-2012: Epidemiology and Clinical Practices [2015]
• Low-income countries
  • Journal of Pregnancy
    • A Model of Tuberculosis Screening for Pregnant Women in Resource-Limited Settings Using Xpert MTB/RIF [2012]
• United Kingdom
  • Public Health England
    • Tuberculosis and pregnant women
• United States of America
  • PLoS ONE
    • Tuberculosis during pregnancy in the United States: Racial/ethnic disparities in pregnancy complications and in-hospital death [2018]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Tuberculosis
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Urinary tract infections in pregnancy

• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Routine Urinalysis for Low-Risk Pregnancies: Clinical Utility and Guidelines [2017]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Treatments for symptomatic urinary tract infections during pregnancy
    • Routine blood cultures in the management of pyelonephritis in pregnancy for improving outcomes
    • Interventions for preventing recurrent urinary tract infection during pregnancy
    • Duration of treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy
    • Different antibiotic regimens for treating asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy
    • Antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy
• Germany
  • Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
    • Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Within the Framework of the German Maternity Guidelines, Under Special Consideration of Test Methods [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Asymptomatic bacteriuria screening in pregnancy
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Antibiotics Dispensed to Privately Insured Pregnant Women with Urinary Tract Infections — United States, 2014 [2018]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Urinary tract infections, urinalysis
    • Infections in pregnancy

Vaccines in pregnancy

• Argentina
  • Vaccine
    • Maternal immunization in Argentina: A storyline from the prospective of a middle income country [2015]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Pertussis immunisation in pregnancy: a summary of funded Australian state and territory programs [2015]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • The benefits of influenza vaccine in pregnancy for the fetus and the infant younger than six months [2014]
  • Government of Canada
    • Update on immunization in pregnancy with Tdap vaccine [2018]
    • Immunization in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Impact of Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) and viral influenza vaccinations in pregnancy for improving maternal, neonatal and infant health outcomes
• Europe
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Tailoring immunization programmes for seasonal influenza (TIP FLU) - A guide for increasing pregnant women’s uptake of seasonal influenza vaccination (2017) [2017]
• India
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • Vaccination during pregnancy: Today's need in India [2015]
• International
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Maternal pertussis immunisation: clinical gains and epidemiological legacy [2017]
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • A global survey of adverse event following immunization surveillance systems for pregnant women and their infants [2016]
  • Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
    • The Global Influenza Initiative recommendations for the vaccination of pregnant women against seasonal influenza [2015]
  • Vaccine
    • Influenza epidemiology and immunization during pregnancy: Final report of a World Health Organization working group [2017]
    • Review of prescribing information for influenza vaccines for pregnant and lactating women [2016]
    • Guideline for collection, analysis and presentation of safety data in clinical trials of vaccines in pregnant women [2016]
    • Guidance for the collection of case report form variables to assess safety in clinical trials of vaccines in pregnancy [2016]
    • Global alignment of immunization safety assessment in pregnancy – The GAIA project [2016]
    • Understanding factors influencing vaccination acceptance during pregnancy globally: A literature review [2015]
    • Key terms for the assessment of the safety of vaccines in pregnancy: Results of a global consultative process to initiate harmonization of adverse event definitions [2015]
    • Does influenza vaccination improve pregnancy outcome? Methodological issues and research needs [2015]
    • A systematic review of adverse events following immunization during pregnancy and the newborn period [2015]
    • A global perspective of maternal influenza immunization [2015]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Maternal and Neonatal Immunization Field Guide for Latin America and the Caribbean [2017]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Vaccine
    • Path to impact: A report from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation convening on maternal immunization in resource-limited settings; Berlin – January 29–30, 2015 [2015]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Immunisation for Pregnant Women: Audience research with pregnant women [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • Lessons learnt from the implementation of maternal immunization programs in England [2016]
    • Approaches to the vaccination of pregnant women: experience from Stockport, UK, with prenatal influenza [2013]
  • Public Health England
    • Vaccine in pregnancy: advice for pregnant women
    • Vaccination against pertussis (whooping cough) for pregnant women
    • Influenza vaccination in pregnancy: advice for healthcare professionals
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Maternal Immunization [2018]
    • Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy [2018]
    • Update on Immunization and Pregnancy Tetanus Diphtheria and Pertussis Vaccination [2017]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Tdap Vaccination Coverage During Pregnancy — Selected Sites, United States, 2006–2015 [2017]
    • Influenza Vaccination Coverage During Pregnancy — Selected Sites, United States, 2005–06 Through 2013–14 Influenza Vaccine Seasons [2016]
    • Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis Vaccination Coverage Before, During, and After Pregnancy — 16 States and New York City, 2011 [2015]
    • Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women — United States, 2014–15 Influenza Season [2015]
    • Vaccination with Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine of Pregnant Women Enrolled in Medicaid — Michigan, 2011–2013 [2014]
    • Updated Recommendations for Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid, and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine (Tdap) in Pregnant Women — Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2012 [2013]
    • Updated Recommendations for Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine (Tdap) in Pregnant Women and Persons Who Have or Anticipate Having Close Contact with an Infant Aged <12 Months [2011]
    • Pregnancy and Vaccination
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's public health response to monitoring Tdap safety in pregnant women in the United States [2015]
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    • Assessment of Safety in Newborns of Mothers Participating in Clinical Trials of Vaccines Administered During Pregnancy [2014]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Vaccinations for Pregnant Women [2015]
  • Vaccine
    • The US FDA pregnancy lactation and labeling rule – Implications for maternal immunization [2015]
    • Maternal immunization efforts of the National Institutes of Health [2015]
    • Maternal benefits of immunization during pregnancy [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Infections in pregnancy

Zika virus infection in pregnancy and newborn

• Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Zika Virus
• America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Zika Virus Transmission — Region of the Americas, May 15, 2015–December 15, 2016 [2017]
    • Zika Virus Spreads to New Areas — Region of the Americas, May 2015–January 2016 [2016]
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
    • Microcephaly Prevalence in Infants Born to Zika Virus-Infected Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2017]
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Strategy for Enhancing National Capacity to Respond to Zika virus Epidemic in the Americas, 3 February 2016 [2016]
    • Provisional remarks on Zika virus infection in pregnant women: Document for health care professionals (January 25, 2016) [2016]
    • Preliminary guidelines for the surveillance of microcephaly in newborns in settings with risk of Zika virus circulation [2016]
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    • Spread of Zika virus in the Americas [2017]
  • Science
    • Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings [2016]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Revised surveillance case definitions: brucellosis and Flavivirus infection (unspecified) including Zika virus [2016]
    • Zika virus – information for clinicians and public health practitioners
  • WA Health, Government of Western Australia
    • Zika virus infection
• Brazil
  • Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
    • Management of infection by the Zika virus [2016]
  • Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Zika virus infection during pregnancy and microcephaly occurrence: a review of literature and Brazilian data [2016]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Risk of microcephaly after Zika virus infection in Brazil, 2015 to 2016 [2017]
    • Microcephaly in north-east Brazil: a retrospective study on neonates born between 2012 and 2015 [2016]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Health and Development at Age 19–24 Months of 19 Children Who Were Born with Microcephaly and Laboratory Evidence of Congenital Zika Virus Infection During the 2015 Zika Virus Outbreak — Brazil, 2017 [2017]
    • Possible Association Between Zika Virus Infection and Microcephaly — Brazil, 2015 [2016]
    • Notes from the Field: Evidence of Zika Virus Infection in Brain and Placental Tissues from Two Congenitally Infected Newborns and Two Fetal Losses — Brazil, 2015 [2016]
    • Increase in Reported Prevalence of Microcephaly in Infants Born to Women Living in Areas with Confirmed Zika Virus Transmission During the First Trimester of Pregnancy — Brazil, 2015 [2016]
    • Hearing Loss in Infants with Microcephaly and Evidence of Congenital Zika Virus Infection — Brazil, November 2015–May 2016 [2016]
  • Epidemiology and Health
    • Zika: what we do and do not know based on the experiences of Brazil [2016]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Detection of Zika virus in Brazilian patients during the first five days of infection – urine versus plasma [2016]
  • Human Reproduction
    • Contraceptive sales in the setting of the Zika virus epidemic [2016]
  • JBRA Assisted Reproduction
    • Reproductive planning in times of Zika: getting pregnant or delaying plans? The opinion of the Brazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction Committee - a basis for a bioethical discussion [2016]
  • Jornal de Pediatria
    • Microcephaly and Zika virus: a clinical and epidemiological analysis of the current outbreak in Brazil [2016]
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • Zika virus outbreak in Brazil [2016]
  • Lancet
    • Congenital Zika virus syndrome in Brazil: a case series of the first 1501 livebirths with complete investigation [2016]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Zika Virus Infection in Pregnant Women in Rio de Janeiro — Preliminary Report [2016]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Zika virus infection and microcephaly: Evidence regarding geospatial associations [2018]
  • Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
    • Zika virus: challenges of public health in Brazil [2016]
  • Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
    • Zika virus infection and pregnancy [2016]
  • Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
    • The role of Brazilian National Health Information Systems in assessing the impact of Zika virus outbreak [2017]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Zika virus: What does a physician caring for children in Canada need to know? [2017]
  • Government of Canada
    • Zika virus
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Travel-related Zika virus cases in Canada: October 2015–June 2017 [2018]
    • Canadian recommendations on the prevention and treatment of Zika virus: update [2016]
• China
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Zika Virus May Affect the Universal Two-Child Policy: A New Challenge for China [2016]
• Colombia
  • EuroSurveillance
    • The epidemiology and transmissibility of Zika virus in Girardot and San Andres island, Colombia, September 2015 to January 2016 [2016]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Zika Virus Disease in Colombia — Preliminary Report [2016]
• Europe
  • BMJ
    • Prevalence of microcephaly in Europe: population based study [2016]
    • Ethnicity should play no role in the definition of microcephaly [2016]
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Zika virus and safety of substances of human origin: a guide for preparedness activities in Europe – first update [2017]
    • Rapid risk assessment: Zika virus disease epidemic. Tenth update, 4 April 2017 [2017]
    • Zika virus disease epidemic: Preparedness planning guide for diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus [2016]
    • Zika virus and safety of substances of human origin – A guide for preparedness activities in Europe [2016]
    • Interim guidance for healthcare providers and Zika virus laboratory diagnosis [2016]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Surveillance of Zika virus infection in the EU/EEA, June 2015 to January 2017 [2017]
    • Status, quality and specific needs of Zika virus (ZIKV) diagnostic capacity and capability in National Reference Laboratories for arboviruses in 30 EU/EEA countries [2017]
    • Zika virus, the new kid on the block [2016]
    • Zika virus and congenital malformations in perspective [2016]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Zika virus and emerging mosquito - borne diseases: The European emergency risk communication challenge. A response guide (2017) [2017]
• France
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Zika emergence in the French Territories of America and description of first confirmed cases of Zika virus infection on Martinique, November 2015 to February 2016 [2016]
    • Travel-associated and autochthonous Zika virus infection in mainland France, 1 January to 15 July 2016 [2016]
    • Réunion Island prepared for possible Zika virus emergence, 2016 [2016]
    • Congenital cerebral malformations and dysfunction in fetuses and newborns following the 2013 to 2014 Zika virus epidemic in French Polynesia [2016]
• Germany
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Sexual transmission of Zika virus in Germany, April 2016 [2016]
• Haiti
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Transmission of Zika Virus — Haiti, October 12, 2015–September 10, 2016 [2017]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Zika Virus Outbreak in Haiti in 2014: Molecular and Clinical Data [2016]
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Interim guidelines on the management of a pregnant woman with possible Zika virus exposure [2017]
    • Zika virus: general information and advice- for obstetrical healthcare providers [2016]
    • Interim guidelines on Zika Virus infection during pregnancy [2016]
• India
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty
    • Zika: How safe is India? [2017]
• International
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • History, Epidemiology, and Clinical Manifestations of Zika: A Systematic Review [2016]
  • BMC Medicine
    • The global threat of Zika virus to pregnancy: epidemiology, clinical perspectives, mechanisms, and impact [2016]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Prevalence of asymptomatic Zika virus infection: a systematic review [2018]
    • Systematic analysis of protein identity between Zika virus and other arthropod-borne viruses [2017]
    • Zika: the origin and spread of a mosquito-borne virus [2016]
    • Times to key events in Zika virus infection and implications for blood donation: a systematic review [2016]
    • Defining the syndrome associated with congenital Zika virus infection [2016]
    • Background review for diagnostic test development for Zika virus infection [2016]
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Current Zika virus transmission - List of countries: ECDC adaptation of WHO's Zika virus country classification scheme [2017]
    • Current Zika transmission worldwide [2017]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO Statement on the Zika virus [2016]
  • International Planned Parenthood Federation
    • IMAP Statement: on zika virus [2016]
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ISUOG Interim Guidance on ultrasound for Zika virus infection in pregnancy: information for healthcare professionals [2016]
  • Journal of Global Infectious Diseases
    • The Emergence of Zika Virus as a Global Health Security Threat: A Review and a Consensus Statement of the INDUSEM Joint working Group (JWG) [2016]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Zika Virus as a Cause of Neurologic Disorders [2016]
  • North American Journal of Medical Sciences
    • Zika Virus: A Global Threat to Humanity: A Comprehensive Review and Current Developments [2016]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Zika Virus Infection as a Cause of Congenital Brain Abnormalities and Guillain–Barré Syndrome: Systematic Review [2017]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • A Cost-Effectiveness Tool for Informing Policies on Zika Virus Control [2016]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Zika virus infection in pregnancy: a systematic review of disease course and complications [2017]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Zika
• Israel
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Detection of Zika virus RNA in whole blood of imported Zika virus disease cases up to 2 months after symptom onset, Israel, December 2015 to April 2016 [2016]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
    • Family planning and Zika virus: need for renewed and cohesive efforts to ensure availability of intrauterine contraception in Latin America and the Caribbean [2017]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • After the epidemic: Zika virus projections for Latin America and the Caribbean [2017]
• Malaysia
  • Medical Journal of Malaysia
    • Zika virus and its potential re-emergence in Malaysia [2016]
• Mexico
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Zika virus infection estimates, Mexico [2018]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Zika virus
• Pacific Islands
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Acute flaccid paralysis incidence and Zika virus surveillance, Pacific Islands [2017]
• PAHO
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Zika Virus Infection. Step-by-Step Guide to Risk Communication and Community Engagement [2017]
    • Zika virus infection: step by step guide on Risk Communications and Community Engagement [2016]
    • Zika Resources: For Health Authorities
• Puerto Rico
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Measures Taken to Prevent Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy — Puerto Rico, 2016 [2017]
    • Update: Ongoing Zika Virus Transmission — Puerto Rico, November 1, 2015–July 7, 2016 [2016]
    • Local Transmission of Zika Virus — Puerto Rico, November 23, 2015–January 28, 2016 [2016]
    • Incidence of Zika Virus Disease by Age and Sex — Puerto Rico, November 1, 2015–October 20, 2016 [2016]
    • Estimating Contraceptive Needs and Increasing Access to Contraception in Response to the Zika Virus Disease Outbreak — Puerto Rico, 2016 [2016]
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Cost-effectiveness of Increasing Access to Contraception during the Zika Virus Outbreak, Puerto Rico, 2016 [2017]
• Singapore
  • BMC Medicine
    • The inevitable colonisation of Singapore by Zika virus [2016]
• South America
  • BMJ
    • Prevalence and clinical profile of microcephaly in South America pre-Zika, 2005-14: prevalence and case-control study [2017]
• South-East Asia
  • Epidemiology and Health
    • The current status of Zika virus in Southeast Asia [2016]
• Taiwan
  • Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
    • Why Zika virus infection has become a public health concern? [2016]
• Thailand
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Detection of Zika Virus Infection in Thailand, 2012–2014 [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Public Health England
    • Zika virus: transmission
    • Zika virus: surveillance for congenital Zika syndrome
    • Zika virus: sexual transmission advice algorithm
    • Zika virus: interim algorithm for assessing pregnant women with a history of travel
    • Zika virus: epidemiology and cases diagnosed in the UK
    • Zika virus: advice for women returning from areas with active Zika virus transmission
    • Zika virus infection: guidance for primary care
    • Zika virus congenital infection: algorithm and interim guidance for neonatologists and paediatricians
    • Zika virus (ZIKV): clinical and travel guidance
    • HAIRS risk assessment: Zika virus
  • Royal College of General Practitioners
    • Zika virus
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Zika Virus
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Practice Advisory Interim Guidance for Care of Obstetric Patients During a Zika Virus Outbreak [2017]
    • Counseling Patients With Zika Infection [2016]
    • Zika Virus
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Testing for Zika virus infection in pregnancy: key concepts to deal with an emerging epidemic [2017]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Update: Noncongenital Zika Virus Disease Cases — 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia, 2016 [2018]
    • Population-Based Surveillance of Birth Defects Potentially Related to Zika Virus Infection — 15 States and U.S. Territories, 2016 [2018]
    • Zika Virus —10 Public Health Achievements in 2016 and Future Priorities [2017]
    • Vital Signs: Update on Zika Virus–Associated Birth Defects and Evaluation of All U.S. Infants with Congenital Zika Virus Exposure — U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry, 2016 [2017]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Management of Infants with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection — United States, October 2017 [2017]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States (Including U.S. Territories), July 2017 [2017]
    • Pregnancy Outcomes After Maternal Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy — U.S. Territories, January 1, 2016–April 25, 2017 [2017]
    • Meeting Summary: State and Local Implementation Strategies for Increasing Access to Contraception During Zika Preparedness and Response — United States, September 2016 [2017]
    • Evaluation of Placental and Fetal Tissue Specimens for Zika Virus Infection — 50 States and District of Columbia, January–December, 2016 [2017]
    • Zika Virus Infection Among U.S. Pregnant Travelers — August 2015–February 2016 [2016]
    • Zika Virus Disease Cases — 50 States and the District of Columbia, January 1–July 31, 2016 [2016]
    • Vital Signs: Preparing for Local Mosquito-Borne Transmission of Zika Virus — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidelines for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women and Women of Reproductive Age with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidelines for Health Care Providers Caring for Infants and Children with Possible Zika Virus Infection [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for the Evaluation and Management of Infants with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus — United States, July 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Preconception Counseling and Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus for Persons with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States, September 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Women of Reproductive Age with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States, July 2016 [2016]
    • Travel-Associated Zika Virus Disease Cases Among U.S. Residents — United States, January 2015–February 2016 [2016]
    • Transmission of Zika Virus Through Sexual Contact with Travelers to Areas of Ongoing Transmission — Continental United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Revision to CDC’s Zika Travel Notices: Minimal Likelihood for Mosquito-Borne Zika Virus Transmission at Elevations Above 2,000 Meters [2016]
    • Preventing Transmission of Zika Virus in Labor and Delivery Settings Through Implementation of Standard Precautions — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Possible Zika Virus Infection Among Pregnant Women — United States and Territories, May 2016 [2016]
    • Patterns in Zika Virus Testing and Infection, by Report of Symptoms and Pregnancy Status — United States, January 3–March 5, 2016 [2016]
    • Interim Guidelines for the Evaluation and Testing of Infants with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Interim Guidelines for Pregnant Women During a Zika Virus Outbreak — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Interim Guidance for Zika Virus Testing of Urine — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Interim Guidance for Interpretation of Zika Virus Antibody Test Results [2016]
    • Contraceptive Use Among Nonpregnant and Postpartum Women at Risk for Unintended Pregnancy, and Female High School Students, in the Context of Zika Preparedness — United States, 2011–2013 and 2015 [2016]
    • Zika Virus
  • National Academies Press
    • Potential Research Priorities to Inform Public Health and Medical Practice for Domestic Zika Virus [2016]
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    • Zika Virus
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Preparedness for Zika virus testing in the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region [2016]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Zika virus and potential complications: Questions and answers [2017]
    • Sexual transmission of Zika Virus: Current status, challenges and research priorities [2017]
    • Zika virus infection: global update on epidemiology and potentially associated clinical manifestations [2016]
    • Zika virus [2016]
    • Women in the context of microcephaly and Zika virus disease [2016]
    • Surveillance for Zika virus infection, microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome: Interim guidance [2016]
    • Screening, assessment and management of neonates and infants with complications associated with Zika virus exposure in utero [2016]
    • Risk communication in the context of Zika virus: Interim guidance [2016]
    • Prevention of sexual transmission of Zika virus: Interim guidance [2016]
    • Pregnancy management in the context of Zika virus, interim guidance [2016]
    • Laboratory testing for Zika virus infection: Interim guidance [2016]
    • Infant feeding in areas of Zika virus transmission [2016]
    • Breastfeeding in the context of Zika virus: Interim guidance [2016]
    • WHO Zika virus situation reports
    • WHO Zika virus and complications
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy