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- Title
Diagnosis and management of infants with congenital cytomegalovirus infection.
- Authors
Gantt, Soren; Bitnun, Ari; Renaud, Christian; Kakkar, Fatima; Vaudry, Wendy
- Abstract
Congenital cytomegalovirus infection (cCMV) is the most common congenital infection, occurring in approximately 0.5% of live births. Most infected newborns are asymptomatic, but up to 20% develop sensorineural hearing loss or other permanent neurologic sequelae. The presentation of newborns with symptomatic cCMV is highly variable, and the infection is usually not diagnosed in the absence of a screening program. Newborn cCMV screening programs are estimated to be beneficial and cost-effective, and are increasingly being implemented. Diagnosis requires direct detection of virus in a sample obtained before 3 weeks of life, and is best performed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of saliva or urine, either of which is more sensitive than dried blood spot. Antiviral treatment of selected newborns with cCMV-related disease appears to improve hearing and neurocognitive outcomes. All infected infants should be evaluated promptly to determine appropriate therapy, and receive close audiologic and developmental follow-up.
- Subjects
CYTOMEGALOVIRUS disease diagnosis; SALIVA microbiology; URINE microbiology; ANTIVIRAL agents; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS diseases; DEAFNESS; POLYMERASE chain reaction; DISEASE complications; SYMPTOMS; CHILDREN
- Publication
Paediatrics & Child Health (1205-7088), 2017, Vol 22, Issue 2, p72
- ISSN
1205-7088
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pch/pxx002