Saliva Polymerase-Chain-Reaction Assay for Cytomegalovirus Screening in Newborns

BACKGROUND: Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is an important cause of hearing loss, and most infants at risk for CMV-associated hearing loss are not identified early in life because of failure to test for the infection. The standard assay for newborn CMV screening is rapid culture performe...

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Main Authors: Boppana, Suresh B., Ross, Shannon A., Shimamura, Masako, Palmer, April L., Ahmed, Amina, Michaels, Marian G., Sánchez, Pablo J., Bernstein, David I., Tolan, Robert W., Novak, Zdenek, Chowdhury, Nazma, Britt, William J., Fowler, Karen B.
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Language:Inglês
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3153859/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21631323
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1006561
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