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Also known as: TORCH syndrome, TORCH infections.
TORCH (or TORCH syndrome) is the short term used to describe a group of diseases that are passed from mother to baby during pregnancy (congenital). The “letters” stand for:
TORCH occurs when a mother has or develops one of these infections and passes it through her blood stream to her unborn baby.
Symptoms can vary widely depending on the particular infection. They often include symptoms such as irritability, failure to thrive, rashes, developmental and learning disabilities, anemia and many other possible symptoms.
Treatment varies widely depending of the particular organism causing the infection, when it occurs and the specific symptoms and complications associated with it.
Reviewed by: Jack Wolfsdorf, MD, FAAP
This page was last updated on: November 18, 2021 04:47 PM
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Nicklaus Children's Hospital, is proud to serve as a regional, national, and international referral center, receiving critically ill newborns from throughout South Florida and Latin America.
It is the condition caused by the Herpes simplex virus. It is the virus that can be transmitted sexually or by direct skin contact and causes genital sores and other symptoms in adults.
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that causes a disease commonly known as the toxoplasmosis. When the parasite is passed to an unborn fetus by the mother, this is known as congenital toxoplasmosis.