Safer Care Victoria endorses the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) 'Management of Perinatal Infections' guidelines for the following diseases.
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV) in neonates
- Herpes simplex-virus HSV in neonates
- Human immunodeficiency virus HIV perinatal
- Listeria monocytogenes infection in neonates
- Parvovirus infection in neonates
- Rubella in neonates
- Syphilis in neonates
- Toxoplasmosis in neonates
- Tuberculosis in neonates
- Varicella-zoster infection neonates (Chickenpox)
Find the ASID Management of Perinatal Infections guidelines under '2022' on the ASID website.
Note: The endorsed ASID guidelines are for where a specific organism has been identified. Please refer to SCV's Sepsis in Neonates guideline for general management of sepsis.
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Version history
Published: November 2022. Third editions
Review by: Funded by ASID
Editors: Pamela Palasanthiran, Mike Starr, Cheryl Jones and Michele Giles.