Prevalence of cytomegalovirus infection in hospitalized infants.

Unlabelled: Data on cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) prevalence and course in hospitalized infants are rather scarce, obsolete and considerably inconsistent.

Aim: to determine the prevalence, rate of clinical manifestations, risk factors and predictive capacity of clinical manifestations of CMV infection in hospitalized infants during their first year of life.

Patients And Methods: All 163 infants hospitalized in the Pediatric Ward for Nonrespiratory Pathology in a tertiary hospital were serologically screened for cytomegalovirus infection for 10 months.

Psychomotor development after ganciclovir selectively treated congenital and perinatal cytomegalovirus infection.

Aim: To study the development of children with selectively treated cytomegalovirus infection.

Patients And Methods: We studied prospectively a risk group of 12 children with cytomegalovirus infection. These children were diagnosed by serological screening in the first three months after birth and are defined as congenital and perinatal infections.