Mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus

Adele Compagnone; Piero Catenazzi; Riccardo Riccardi; Antonio A Zuppa

doi:10.23736/S0026-4946.18.04898-3

Mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus

Minerva Pediatr. 2019 Apr;71(2):174-180. doi: 10.23736/S0026-4946.18.04898-3. Epub 2018 Jul 2.

Authors

Adele Compagnone¹, Piero Catenazzi², Riccardo Riccardi², Antonio A Zuppa²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neonatology, Institute of Pediatrics, "Agostino Gemelli" Policlinic University Foundation, Sacred Heart Catholic University, Rome, Italy - adelecompagnone@yahoo.it.
² Department of Neonatology, Institute of Pediatrics, "Agostino Gemelli" Policlinic University Foundation, Sacred Heart Catholic University, Rome, Italy.

PMID: 29968442
DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4946.18.04898-3

Abstract

This review reinforces the lack of a single maternal risk factor that is highly associated with vertical transmission (VT) of the infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV): indeed HCV RNA levels, mode of delivery, breast feeding, viral genotype or maternal IL28B status were not associated with HCV VT.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Breast Feeding / statistics & numerical data
Delivery, Obstetric / statistics & numerical data
Female
Genotype
Hepacivirus / genetics
Hepacivirus / isolation & purification
Hepatitis C / transmission*
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical*
Interferons
Interleukins / genetics
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / epidemiology
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / virology*
Risk Factors

Substances

interferon-lambda, human
Interleukins
Interferons