Infectious Disease in Pregnancy

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue “Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy” will collect articles related to the various aspects of pregnancies affected by microbiological aggressions. Having a particular immunological status, the pregnant women could develop unusual reactions to different infections, and the consequences could be difficult to predict. Moreover, fetus protection depends greatly on the maternal–fetal barrier represented by placenta and, therefore, congenital intrauterine infections are mainly defined as risks that are difficult to diagnose prenatally.

The outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic as well as other viral or microbial infections provide interesting aspects regarding epidemiological and risk factors, immunological aspects, difficulties of diagnostic and management options. This Special Issue will therefore focus on the pathogenesis and management of both maternal infections and fetal intrauterine infections.

Cohort clinical studies, cross-sectional randomized studies of clinical evolution, reviews of technical developments of in vitro diagnostics, and laboratory accuracy of diagnostic methods are the main types of articles of interest for this Special Issue.

Clinical studies will also be evaluated according to the soundness of the statistical methodology use to support the conclusion of the study. Reviews should conclude with an outlook, open questions, and directions for future research.

We invite suggestions for manuscripts to be included in this Special Issue. Please contact the editors before preparing the manuscript regarding the topic coverage.

Prof. Dr. Razvan Socolov
Prof. Dr. Radu Vlädäreanu
Prof. Dr. Liana Pleş
Guest Editors

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