Professor Susanna Esposito gives an overview of those vaccines that, administered during pregnancy, in addition to the benefit for the mothers, seem to provide protection to the newborns in their first months of life: influenza vaccination, DTP vaccine, RSV and GBS (the last two of which are still being studied).

Flu vaccine is particularly recommended to pregnant women since they cannot take medication, as the ESCMID Study Group for Vaccines (EVASG) points out here.

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