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What is a prenatal infection?
A prenatal infection is a maternal infection that is transmitted to the fetus through the placenta.
What prevents the majority infections from spreading from mother to fetus?
Antibodies in the maternal blood prevent most infections from being transmitted to the fetus.
What food-borne infections can be transmitted from mother to fetus?
The food-borne bacterial infections listeriosis--caused by Listeria monocytogenes --and salmonellosis or food poisoning--caused by Salmonella bacteria--can be transmitted to a fetus.
How serious is puerperal infection?
The term puerperal infection refers to a bacterial infection following childbirth.
What is the most common maternal to fetal transmission of hepatitis B?
Although hepatitis B can be transmitted to the fetus through the placenta, most often it is transmitted perinatally.
What prevents most toxoplasmosis from being passed from mother to fetus?
Very few infected people have symptoms and most pregnant women have antibodies that protect the fetus from infection.
What is the viral infection known as rubella?
Rubella, or German measles is a three-day measles. It is a viral infection that causes death or severe birth defects if transmitted to the fetus during the first 10 weeks of gestation.
How is infection diagnosed as the cause of premature rupture of membranes?
Amniocentesis can determine infection. A fever and a high white blood cell count in the mother, increased heart rate of mother and/or fetus, foul smelling discharge from the vagina, a tender uterus.
What Structure pushes fetus out of the mother?
The structure that pushes the fetus out of the mother is called the uterus.
Can a fetus survive when mother is a and fetus is b blood group?
Yes, there is no danger to the fetus is the mother is type A and baby is type B
Is folic acid found in a higher concentration in fetus than mother?
A fetus gets all of it's nutrition from their mother. The mother has all of the nutrients and passes them along to the fetus.
Toxins can enter the fetus by?
blood flow from the mother to the fetus
