Congenital and perinatal cytomegalovirus infection

Abstract

Congenital cytomegalovirus infection was found in 0.5% omit of 2,070 newborn infants. None of the congenitally infected infants revealed abnormal clinical and laboratory findings during the period of observation from 2 to 24 months except one case. Impaired specific cell-mediated immunity was found in congenitally infected infants and this fact seemed to be not a defect but a delay in lymphocytic reactivity.