REVIEW article
Front. Immunol.
Sec. Vaccines and Molecular Therapeutics
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1687362
Research Progress on Vaccination During Pregnancy
Provisionally accepted
- 1Personalized Drug Research and Therapy Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- 2Department of Pharmacy, Chongqing Red Cross Hospital, Chongqing, China
- 3Department of Pharmacy, Bishan Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- 4Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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Pregnant women and infants are more vulnerable to infectious diseases than the general population.Vaccination during pregnancy can not only protect mothers and fetuses from diseases,but also safeguards infants through maternal antibodies transferred via the placenta. It stands as one of the most effective strategies to reduce the incidence and mortality of infectious diseases among pregnant women and infants.Globally, pregnancy vaccination strategies are increasingly diversified. This review discusses the effectiveness and safety of various vaccines for preventing infectious diseases during pregnancy, as well as vaccination recommendations for pregnant women across different countries.
Keywords: Pregnancy, Vaccination, maternal immunization, vaccine safety, vaccine efficacy
Received: 17 Aug 2025; Accepted: 13 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 ZHANG, Li, Li, Li, Xie and Yang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Yong Yang, yangyongforever@163.com
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