Cytomegalovirus Infection in Pregnancy

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To the Editor: Recent reports have demonstrated that congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is frequently inapparent clinically.1 , 2 Neurologic sequelae of occult congenital cytomegalovirus infection occur in 10 per cent of such infants.2 Mothers of infected infants are frequently teen-age primiparas.2 Unfortunately, no consistent symptomatology referable to acquired cytomegalovirus in the mothers of such infants has been described. Evidence has accumulated within recent years associating acquired CMV with an infectious-mononucleosis-like illness,3 , 4 liver disease,5 respiratory illness,6 vaginitis7 and post-perfusion syndrome.8 , 9 To date, no attempt has been made to identify clinical evidence of acquired CMV infection in the pregnant woman.We have attempted . . .