Human cytomegalovirus infection is detected frequently in stillbirths and is associated with fetal thrombotic vasculopathy

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 203, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1526-1533

  Iwasenko, Jenna M ^a,b   Howard, Jonathan ^a,b   Arbuckle, Susan ^b   Graf, Nicole ^b   Hall, Beverley ^a   Craig, Maria E ^b   Rawlinson, William D ^a,b,c  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETAL THROMBOTIC VASCULOPATHY; FETUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STILLBIRTH; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PLACENTA DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; STILLBIRTH; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 79956203212     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir121     Document Type: Article

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