Symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection in infants born to mothers with preexisting immunity to cytomegalovirus

SB Boppana, KB Fowler, WJ Britt, S Stagno… - Pediatrics, 1999 - publications.aap.org
Objectives. To determine the frequency of symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV)
infection in the offspring of women with a recurrent maternal CMV infection and to
characterize the demographic and newborn findings. Methods. Study subjects consisted of
infants with symptomatic congenital CMV infection identified by a newborn virologic
screening program at the University of Alabama Hospital between 1991 and 1997 and were
enrolled in a long-term follow-up study. Maternal infections were categorized by an analysis …