This TORCH infections is vaccine preventable.
What is Rubella?
A mom has a reactive RPR with confirmatory positive TPA-Abs. What is the treatment in pregnancy?
What is Penicillin G
The causative agent of syphilis?
Treponemia Pallidum - spirochete
A woman in her 2nd trimester is found to be positive for syphilis. She has a PCN allergy. The next step in her management is:
What is PCN sensitization?
Treatment AND dosage recommended for HSV outbreak in pregnancy.
What is valacyclovir 1000 mg BID
The name of the phenomenon (sometimes febrile) after receiving Syphilis treatment.
What is Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction?
The likely diagnosis in a SGA baby found to have seizures, microcephaly, thrombocytopenia, hepatosplenomegaly and jaundice.
What is CMV?
Same symptoms can be seen with congenital Toxo, but thrombocytopenia is not associated with Toxo)=
Intervention for herpetic lesions found on the mons for a patient who presents in labor.
What is occlusive dressing
Treatment for suspected fetal toxoplasmosis
Pyrimethamine, sulfadiazine and leucovorin
Cardiovascular defects associated with congenital rubella infection (two)
Pulmonary stenosis and PDA
In contrast to most viral infections during pregnancy, the risk of fetal infection with this virus decreases with increasing gestational age at maternal infection.
What is Rubella virus?
Treatment for toxoplasmosis if fetal infection is NOT suspected and diagnosed before 18 weeks.
What is Spiramycin?
How congenital toxoplasmosis is definitively diagnosed
What is organism isolation from placenta, serum or CSF
The newborn with congenital syphilis is considered this stage of disease progression.
What is secondary syphilis?
Number of reported Congenital Rubella Syndrome diagnosed in the US in 2022.
What is zero? (Rubella eliminated in 2004 as endemic infection)
This drug (in high dose) shows some evidence of higher rates of asymptomatic neonates (82% vs 43%) born following intrauterine infection of CMV.
An adequate response in titer reduction following treatment of syphilis
What is four-fold decline?
Fetus infected with these microbe in the third trimester are generally asymptomatic (two).
What are toxoplasmosis and CMV?