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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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Clinical Guidance Team
Safer Care Victoria

Version history

First published: November 2022. Third editions

Review by: Funded by ASID

Editors: Pamela Palasanthiran, Mike Starr, Cheryl Jones and Michele Giles.

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