A Targeted Approach for Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screening Within Newborn Hearing Screening.

Background And Objective: Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection remains a leading cause of childhood hearing loss. Currently universal CMV screening at birth does not exist in the United States. An alternative approach could be testing infants who do not pass their newborn hearing screening (NHS) for cCMV.