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| LETTER TO EDITOR |
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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 806 |
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Summarization on 57 pregnant women with COVID-19 with special reference to vertical transmission feasibility
Pathum Sookaromdee1, Viroj Wiwanitkit2
1 TWS Medical Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2 Department of Community Medicine, Dr. D. Y. Patil University, Pune, Maharashtra, India; Department of Tropical Medicine, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China
| Date of Submission | 29-Apr-2020 |
| Date of Decision | 30-Jun-2020 |
| Date of Acceptance | 29-Oct-2020 |
| Date of Web Publication | 2-Nov-2022 |
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Pathum Sookaromdee
TWS Medical Center, Bangkok
Thailand
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/jdmimsu.jdmimsu_167_20
How to cite this article:
Sookaromdee P, Wiwanitkit V. Summarization on 57 pregnant women with COVID-19 with special reference to vertical transmission feasibility. J Datta Meghe Inst Med Sci Univ 2022;17:806 |
How to cite this URL:
Sookaromdee P, Wiwanitkit V. Summarization on 57 pregnant women with COVID-19 with special reference to vertical transmission feasibility. J Datta Meghe Inst Med Sci Univ [serial online] 2022 [cited 2023 Feb 4];17:806. Available from: http://www.journaldmims.com/text.asp?2022/17/3/806/360183 |
Sir,
The new emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV2) causes the pandemic problem of COVID-19 at present. This disease was first reported in pneumonia patients in China before it causes worldwide problem.[1] This disease affects any age group. The pregnant woman might be affected. There are some reports on pregnant women with COVID-19. The interesting concern is on the transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV2 pathogen to cause infection in newborns. Here, the authors summarized on available data on 57 pregnant women with COVID-19.[2],[3],[4] Of these 57 cases, there is no vertical transmission. This observation is similar to that seen in previous MERS-CoV infection. Since the placental pore barrier is very small, the big size coronavirus should not be able to pass across it.
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