CMV Immunity: Imperfect but Protective

Abstract

IF a woman who has had a cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection has a recurrence of the infection during pregnancy, the chance that her baby will have a harmful congenital CMV infection is much less than it is if a woman has her first CMV infection during pregnancy. That is the important message in the most recent of many contributions to our knowledge of CMV infection and disease made by Stagno and his co-workers.¹ Their 1977 study demonstrated that congenital infections could occur in the offspring of immune women,² but did not define the frequency of such events or the effect on . . .