The usual way in which the fetus is infected is by transplacental spread after maternal infection in which the organism circulates in the mother's blood. These infections, acquired in utero ...

These experiments would not be improved upon for 60 years, when the identification of immunoglobulin classes made differential transplacental and transglandular passage of immunoglobulins an ...

Infants in developing countries acquire a high titer of transplacental anti-rotavirus IgG from their mother, which wanes in the infant with a half-life of 3–4 weeks. Studies of Rotarix have ...

Infection of the fetus early in pregnancy results in congenital varicella syndrome; transplacental infection at delivery results in neonatal varicella. Interestingly, recurrent VZV infection ...