The “Silent” Global Burden of Congenital Cytomegalovirus

By S. Manicklal, V. Emery, T. Lazzarotto, S. Boppana, Ravindra K. Gupta. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2013

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9640444ab346f0c49c92a3621a3c8f132f0a613b

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• Valganciclovir for Symptomatic Congenital Cytomegalovirus Disease (2015, neutral): “10% of congenitally infected neonates have symptomatic disease at delivery, of whom 35% have SNHL, up to two-thirds have neurologic deficits, and 4% die in the newborn period.(7-11) Overall, congenital CMV is a rare infection but accounts for 21% of hearing loss at birth and 24% of hearing loss at f”