Prevention and control of neonatal intrauterine infection / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

ABSTRACT

Intrauterine infections is one of the causes of adverse outcomes and high long-term disability rate in perinatal infants.About one million neonatal deaths per year are closely related to prenatal or perinatal infections.Therefore, reducing intrauterine infections during perinatal period is essential to promote the physical and mental health of mothers and children.Now, the types of pathogens in intrauterine infections, their effects on the fetus, the routes of infection, and their control measures were described.