Breast milk-acquired cytomegalovirus infection in very low birth weight infants

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2012, Pages 57-62

  Lombardi, Giuseppina ^a   Garofoli, Francesca ^b   Manzoni, Paolo ^c   Stronati, Mauro ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^b Neonatal Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit   (Italy)

^c Neonatology and Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; HCMV postnatal infection; HCMV postnatal transmission; Preterm infants

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST MILK; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FREEZING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE INFECTION; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PASTEURIZATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VIRUS INFECTIVITY;

BREAST FEEDING; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MILK, HUMAN;

EID: 84867011292     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2012.712345     Document Type: Review

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