What is TORCH?
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:
What causes TORCH?
TORCH occurs when a mother has or develops one of these infections and passes it through her blood stream to her unborn baby.
Reviewed by: Jack Wolfsdorf, MD, FAAP
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