Volume 129, Issue 2 , Pages: i-vi, 177-327 (January 2022)

Themed Issue: Infections in Pregnancy

Issue Information

1. Issue Information

 Editorial

2. Infection during pregnancy: Continued challenges into the 21st century

Commentary

3. Population birth data and pandemic readiness in Europe

4. Retained products of conception as an aetiology for endometritis

5. Coronavirus disease 2019 and pregnancy is déjà vu all over again

6. Pregnancy and the risk of severe coronavirus disease 2019 infection: methodological challenges and research recommendations

Systematic Review

7. Effect of negative-pressure wound therapy on wound complications in obese women after caesarean birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Review Article

8. Human placental biology at single-cell resolution: a contemporaneous review

Research Articles

- Epidemiology
9. SARS-CoV-2 infection among hospitalised pregnant women and impact of different viral strains on COVID-19 severity in Italy: a national prospective population-based cohort study

Mini commentary

10. SARS-CoV-2 infection among hospitalised pregnant women and impact of different viral strains on COVID-19 disease severity in Italy

Research Articles

Epidemiology
11. Assessing the added value of group B Streptococcus maternal immunisation in preventing maternal infection and fetal harm: population surveillance study

12. The relationship between hepatitis B virus serum DNA, RNA and quantitative hepatitis B surface antigen, and the predictive value for mother-to-child transmission: an observational cohort study

13. Covid-19 vaccination during the third trimester of pregnancy: rate of vaccination and maternal and neonatal outcomes, a multicentre retrospective cohort study

Fetal Medicine

14. COVID-19 and vertical transmission: assessing the expression of ACE2/TMPRSS2 in the human fetus and placenta to assess the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection

General Obstetrics

15. Associations between breast implants and postpartum lactational mastitis in breastfeeding women: retrospective study

16. Genital mycoplasma infection and spontaneous preterm birth outcome: a prospective cohort study

17. SARS-CoV-2 and pregnancy outcomes under universal and non-universal testing in Sweden: register-based nationwide cohort study

18. Universal newborn screening for congenital cytomegalovirus infection: feasibility and relevance in a French type-III maternity cohort

BJOG Perspective

19. Syphilis, from its poetic past to the modern resurgence

Research Articles

Health Economics
20. Leaning towards Cytomegalovirus serological screening in pregnancy to prevent congenital infection: a cost-effectiveness perspective

Maternal Medicine

21. Intra-couple discordance in preconception syphilis screening for both spouses: a national and population-based survey in China, 2013–2018

22. Routine screening for hepatitis C in pregnancy is cost-effective in a large urban population in Ireland: a retrospective study