Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection
- 22 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 306 (16), 945-949
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198204223061601
Abstract
We studied the incidence of primary and recurrent cytomegalovirus infection in 3712 pregnant women —2698 of middle to high income and 1014 of low income — to determine whether there were differences in the effects on the fetus. In the higher-income group, 1203 women (45 per cent) did not have antibodies to cytomegalovirus and were therefore susceptible to primary infection, as compared with 179 women (18 per cent) of low income. Congenital infection occurred more often (1.6 vs. 0.6 per cent) in infants in the low-income group. In this group it was associated with recurrent maternal infection more often (in 82 per cent) than with primary maternal infection, whereas in the upper-income group, it was associated with primary maternal infection in half the cases.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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