Is there evidence of intra-uterine vertical transmission potential of COVID-19 infection in samples tested by quantitative RT-PCR?

Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2020 Jun:249:100-101. doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2020.04.034. Epub 2020 Apr 18.

Authors

Isaac Cheruiyot¹, Brandon Michael Henry², Giuseppe Lippi³

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
² Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, The Heart Institute Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, United States. Electronic address: Brandon.henry@cchmc.org.
³ Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / genetics*
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Female
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / virology*
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods*
SARS-CoV-2