Maturation of Cellular and Humoral Immunity

An extremely low body weight infant born to a mother with measles

“…Premature birth cuts short the transplacental transfer of maternal IgG 5 at the third trimester, so that the baby lacks passive maternal protection against measles before the third trimester, though a fetus can produce IgM by itself after 8 weeks of gestation. 6 As passive immunity, Christensen et al 7 reported that 7 out of 22 cases of congenital measles on not receiving g-globulin died. In our case, the mother gave birth within 3 days after the onset of the rash, and the baby did not have a rash at birth.…”