Infants born with serious infections are treated in the neonatal care unit with intravenous drugs.
Infants born to infected mothers may be treated with medications even if they show few or no signs of infection.
Although immediate penicillin treatment for GBS-infected newborns is very effective, about 5% of GBS-infected newborns die.
Unfortunately, half of the newborns infected with Listeria will die from the illness.
Newborns with symptoms of toxoplasmosis are treated with pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine for one year.
GBS-infected mothers are less likely to infect their newborns if treated with antibiotics during labor.
Newborns, two to three weeks.
HPV infection in newborns is treated by surgically removing the warts. If the warts obstruct breathing passages, frequent laser surgery is required. Interferon may be used to reduce the likelihood of recurrence.
10-15% of CMV-infected newborns may exhibit low birth weight; jaundice; enlarged liver and spleen; hernias; microcephaly or hydrocephaly; and brain damage.
Newborns with symptoms of toxoplasmosis are treated with leucovorin for one year to protect the bone marrow from pyrimethamine toxicity.
Newborns with symptoms of toxoplasmosis are treated with corticosteroids for heart, lung, or eye inflammations.
Newborns infected with rubella early in the pregnancy may have low birth weight; bruising; bluish-red skin lesions; enlarged lymph nodes; enlarged liver and spleen; brain inflammation; and pneumonia.
Infants born with congenital GBS infections are treated immediately with intravenous antibiotics.