Congenital cytomegalovirus infection: Update on management strategies

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 186-192

  Schleiss, Mark R ^a  

^a University of Minnesota Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIDOFOVIR; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; VALGANCICLOVIR;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG INDICATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NEWBORN SCREENING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SPEECH THERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 56349115406     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-008-0020-2     Document Type: Review

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