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MARANON CARDONNE, Tatiana; MASTRAPA CANTILLO, Kenia; POULUT DURADES, Tania Margarita  y  VAILLANT LORA, Llilian Dangelis. COVID-19 and pregnancy: An approach in times of pandemic. MEDISAN [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.4, pp. 707-727.  Epub 15-Jul-2020. ISSN 1029-3019.

The well-known disease COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus and it constitutes an emergency of the public health at global scale. Since the report about the first case on December, 2019, in Whuan, Chinese province of Hubei, the disease has expanded quickly through the world and it was qualified as pandemic on March of the present year. Pregnancy is a physiological state that predisposes women to viral infection. Beyond the impact of the infection due to COVID-19 in a pregnant woman, there are concerns related to the possible effect on the fetal and neonatal result; therefore, the pregnant women constitute a group that requires special care as for prevention, diagnosis and care. Aspects related to the infection due to COVID-19 and pregnancy are approached in this work.

Palabras clave : pregnancy; newborn; COVID-19; pandemic; acute respiratory syndrome; vertical transmission; perinatal infection.

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