Pediatria pre prax 2/2007

CONGENITAL INFECTIONS – CURRENT STAGE

Congenital infection includes intrauterine or perinatal infection. The topic of this review article is infections important for the region of central Europe. We mention only briefly the most important foetal infections of females-travellers.

Keywords: Borrelia burgdorferi, Lyme borreliosis, streptococci of group B, the artificial interruption of pregnancy.