ReviewCurrent pharmaceutical design2018
Viral Infections in Pregnancy: A Focus on Ebola Virus.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of COVID-19 on Maternal Health Service Uptake and Perinatal Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Factors that influence vaccination decision-making among pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Editorial: The WHO Identifies Ebola Disease Due to Bundibugyo Virus as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) as Vaccine Development Accelerates.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2026Article
- Pregnancy in the Shadow of Covid-19: A Qualitative Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Contraception use and pregnancy in women receiving a 2-dose Ebola vaccine in Rwanda: A retrospective analysis of UMURINZI vaccination campaign data.PLoS medicine · 2025Article
- Maternal and child health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in India: an interrupted time-series analysis.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- Collateral Damage in the Placenta during Viral Infection in Pregnancy: A Possible Mechanism for Vertical Transmission and an Adverse Pregnancy Outcome.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- RNA Viruses, Pregnancy and Vaccination: Emerging Lessons from COVID-19 and Ebola Virus Disease.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Impact of maternal nutrition in viral infections during pregnancy.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2021Review
- Extrapulmonary complications of COVID-19: A multisystem disease?Journal of medical virology · 2021Review
- A Case of COVID-19 Mortality in a Pregnant Woman with Diabetes Ketoacidosis.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2021Article
- Contemporary Understanding of Ebola and Zika Virus in Pregnancy.Clinics in perinatology · 2020Review
- Breastfed 13 month-old infant of a mother with COVID-19 pneumonia: a case report.International breastfeeding journal · 2020Article
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- Innate Immune Responses to Acute Viral Infection During Pregnancy.Frontiers in immunology · 2020Review
- Factors Affecting Prevention Behaviors Against Covid-19 Infection Among Iranian Pregnant Women: Application of Protection Motivation Theory.Current health sciences journalArticle
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Abstract
During gestation, the immune response of the placenta to viruses and other pathogens plays an important role in determining a pregnant woman's vulnerability toward infectious diseases. Located at the maternalfetal interface, trophoblast cells serve to minimize the spread of viruses between the host and developing fetus through an intricate system of innate antiviral immune signaling. Adverse pregnancy outcomes, ranging from learning disabilities to preterm birth and fetal death, are all documented results of a viral breach in the placental barrier. Viral infections during pregnancy can also be spread through blood and vaginal secretions, and during the post-natal period, via breast milk. Thus, even in the absence of vertical transmission of viral infection to the fetus, maternal health can still be compromised and threaten the pregnancy. The most common viral DNA isolates found in gestation are adenovirus, cytomegalovirus, and enterovirus. However, with the recent pandemic of Ebola virus, and the first documented case of a neonate to survive due to experimental therapies in 2017, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the changing roles and impacts of viral infection during pregnancy needs to be better understood, while strategies to minimize adverse pregnancy outcomes need to be identified. This review focuses on the adverse impacts of viral infection during gestation, with an emphasis on Ebola virus.
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