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Epidemiology of congenital cytomegalovirus infection: maternal risk factors and molecular analysis of cytomegalovirus strains.
American journal of epidemiology - 15 May 1998
Murph J R, Souza I E, Dawson J D, Benson P, Petheram S J, Pfab D, Gregg A, O'Neill M E, Zimmerman B, Bale J F
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To determine factors that influence the occurrence of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, the authors surveyed prospectively 8,254 infants born in eastern Iowa between October 1989 and June 1994. The authors conducted a case-control study to identify maternal risk factors, matching each CMV-infected infant with three uninfected infants according to hospital and date of birth. CMV strains were compared by...
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