TORCH
Stands for a group of infections that may cause birth defects that include toxoplasmosis, rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex, and HIV, but it can also contain other newborn infections, by a mechanism of vertical transmission.
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Sometimes the test is spelled TORCHS, that includes syphilis.
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