Enhanced fetal hematopoiesis in response to symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy.
Mansour AlkobtawiQui Trung NgôNicolas ChapuisRomain H FontaineMira El-KhouryMatthieu TihyNawa HachemAude JaryVincent CalvezMichaela FontenayVassilis TsatsarisSelim AractingiBénédicte OulèsPublished in: Communications medicine (2023)
Overall, these results show a fetal hematopoietic response to symptomatic COVID-19 in pregnant mothers in the absence of vertically transmitted SARS-CoV-2 infection which is likely to be a mechanism of fetal adaptation to the maternal infection and reduced oxygen supply.