新冠肺炎是否會母嬰垂直感染，目前仍不清楚；此研究報告針對一位於懷孕期間感染新冠肺炎的孕婦和其新生兒於孕程後期和產後期間，根據母親及其新生兒血清中的免疫球蛋白濃度高低 IgM 和 IgG 進行分析，結果發現新冠肺炎有母嬰垂直感染的可能性，但仍需更多的研究結果來證實。
(財團法人國家衛生研究院 蔡慧如博士摘要整理)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is highly infectious, with multiple possible routes of transmission.1–3 Controversy exists regarding whether SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted in utero from an infected mother to her infant before birth. A series of 9 pregnant women found no mother-child transmission.4 We report a newborn with elevated IgM antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 born to a mother with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Author：Lan Dong, Jinhua Tian, Songming He, et al.
原文連結：https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763853