Cytomegalovirus and transmission via breast milk: How to support breast milk to premature infants and prevent severe infection?

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 680-681

  Kurath, Stefan ^a   Resch, Bernhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST MILK; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PASTEURIZATION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BLOOD; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MILK, HUMAN; MOTHERS;

EID: 77954339068     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181dc4d4a     Document Type: Letter

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