Congenital Infections

A fully automated assays menu for the screening, follow-up, and confirmation of common prenatal infections.

Congenital infections are major contributors of perinatal morbidity and mortality, for up to 50% of stillbirths in low and middle-income countries, and 10-25% in high-income countries.¹

Congenital infections are vertically transmitted from mother to fetus during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding and include diseases such as toxoplasmosis, HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis, chagas, rubella, cytomegalovirus, and herpes simplex virus.

Recognising maternal disease and monitoring the patient, when diagnosed, are important for clinicians in treating the patients. Understanding this group of illnesses can help clinicians counsel patients to prevent mother to fetus transmission, and guide adequate and timely treatment and/or counseling, if infected.

IDS provides a broad portfolio of fully automated serology assays, covering the common prenatal infections from initial screening to post-natal follow-up, and confirmation.

Toxoplasmosis, including IgG Avidity
Rubella, including IgG Avidity
CMV, including IgG Avidity
HSV
Parvovirus B-19

Reddy UM, et al. Lancet. 2010;375(9724):1482-90.

Related Disease Areas

Childhood Communicable

Congenital

Respiratory

Sexually Transmitted

Vaccine Preventable Disease

Vector Borne