Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Improved Understanding of Maternal Immune Responses That Reduce the Risk of Transplacental Transmission.

Clin Infect Dis

Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Translational Research, Minneapolis.

Published: October 2017

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