id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-259660-x9sobzyw Mohakud, Nirmal K An Assumed Vertical Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 During Pregnancy: A Case Report and Review of Literature 2020-09-26 .txt text/plain 1435 90 56 In the present report, we describe a premature newborn, who was born to a primigravida mother with HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count) syndrome and moderate COVID-19 pneumonia. The newborn tested positive at 12 hours of life for COVID-19 by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of the tracheal aspirate sample [9] . The authors in one review reported 179 cases of newborns tested positive at birth, whose mothers were infected in the third trimester of pregnancy [5] . The authors of one study described that three newborns born to mothers with COVID-19 infection had positive antibodies (IgM and IgG) at birth [7, 8] . In the present report, the index newborn was tested positive at 12 hours of life without any features of symptomatic COVID-19 infection [9] . Possible vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from an infected mother to her newborn A neonate born to mother with COVID-19 during pregnancy & HELLP syndrome: a possible vertical transmission ./cache/cord-259660-x9sobzyw.txt ./txt/cord-259660-x9sobzyw.txt