Mpox in Pregnancy - Risks, Vertical Transmission, Prevention, and Treatment

Jean B Nachega; Emma L Mohr; Pradip Dashraath; Placide Mbala-Kingebeni; Jean R Anderson; Landon Myer; Monica Gandhi; David Baud; Lynne M Mofenson; Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum; Mpox Research Consortium (MpoxReC)

doi:10.1056/NEJMp2410045

Mpox in Pregnancy - Risks, Vertical Transmission, Prevention, and Treatment

N Engl J Med. 2024 Oct 10;391(14):1267-1270. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2410045. Epub 2024 Aug 28.

Affiliation

¹ From the Departments of Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh (J.B.N.); the Departments of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (J.B.N.), and the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (J.R.A.) - both in Baltimore; the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (J.B.N.), and the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Cape Town (L.M.) - both in Cape Town, South Africa; the Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison (E.L.M.); the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore City, Singapore (P.D.); the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) and the Departments of Microbiology and Virology, University of Kinshasa School of Medicine - both in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (P.M.-K., J.-J.M.-T.); the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (M.G.); Materno-fetal and Obstetrics Research Unit, Department "Femme-Mère-Enfant," Lausanne University Hospital, and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (D.B.); and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Washington, DC (L.L.M.).

PMID: 39197097
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2410045

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MeSH terms

Antiviral Agents* / administration & dosage
Female
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical* / prevention & control
Mpox (monkeypox)* / drug therapy
Mpox (monkeypox)* / epidemiology
Mpox (monkeypox)* / prevention & control
Mpox (monkeypox)* / transmission
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious* / drug therapy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious* / epidemiology
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious* / prevention & control
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious* / virology
Smallpox Vaccine* / administration & dosage
Vaccination / methods
Vaccines, Attenuated / administration & dosage

Substances

Smallpox Vaccine
smallpox and monkeypox vaccine modified vaccinia ankara-bavarian nordic
smallpox vaccine LC16m8
Vaccines, Attenuated
tecovirimat
Antiviral Agents