The prevalence of congenital and perinatal cytomegalovirus infections among newborns of seropositive mothers

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 410-415

  AlKhawaja, Shahnaz ^a   Ismaeel, Abdulrahman Y ^a   Botta, Giuseppe A ^b   Senok, Abiola C ^c  

^a ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

^b Medical School   (Italy)

^c ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Congenital infection; Human cytomegalovirus; Neonatal; Perinatal infection

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ARTICLE; BAHRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5;

EID: 84861391890     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.2125     Document Type: Article

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