Symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection in one twin after recurrent maternal infection

Pediatrics International

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 88-90

  Manoura, Antonia ^a   Hatzidaki, Eleftheria ^a   Korakaki, Eftyhia ^a   Margari, Kalliopi M ^a   Galanakis, Emmanouil ^a   Giannakopoulou, Christine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Congenital infection; Cytomegalovirus; Recurrent maternal cytomegalovirus infection; Twins

Indexed keywords

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TWIN PREGNANCY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 33645234176     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2006.02158.x     Document Type: Article

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