This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow P3Rs: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when P3Rs are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow E-mail this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My File Cabinet
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Ahlfors, K.
Right arrow Articles by Ahlfors, K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Ahlfors, K.
Right arrow Articles by Ahlfors, K.
Related Collections
Right arrowRelated AAP Red Book topics:
Cytomegalovirus Infection

PEDIATRICS Vol. 107 No. 5 May 2001, pp. 1227-1228

Secondary Maternal Cytomegalovirus Infection---A Significant Cause of Congenital Disease

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor.

In November 1999 a comprehensive report by us on a Swedish long-term prospective study of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases.1 The main observation---already reported in 19842---was that secondary (recurrent) maternal CMV infection seems to be an important cause of congenital CMV disease. Data from England (1983)3 and Belgium (1999)4 indicate a similar situation as in Sweden. While our report (1999) was in press, a US report from Alabama (1999)5 was published in the present journal with the same signification. The new US data were contrary to those reported by the same group as late as in 1992.6,7 The new unanimous findings have weighty consequences.

The Swedish study1 was based on observations made in infants born in 1977-1985. Congenital infection was identified from newborn virologic screening at the General Hospital in Malmö, Sweden. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Obstet GynecolHome page
S. Lipitz, R. Achiron, Y. Zalel, E. Mendelson, M. Tepperberg, and R. Gamzu
Outcome of Pregnancies With Vertical Transmission of Primary Cytomegalovirus Infection
Obstet. Gynecol., September 1, 2002; 100(3): 428 - 433.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]