Physicians caring for expecting or pregnant mothers get great support from diagnostic tests of the TORCH panel to identify possible challenges by infectious conditions which could seriously harm the ...

Currently CMV is the most common cause of congenital infection in the United States. Ten to 20% of infected infants may suffer sensorineural hearing loss, ocular damage, or impairment of cognitive and ...

Minnesota is the first U.S. state to universally test newborns for cytomegalovirus, an easily transmissible virus and a leading cause of infant hearing loss and congenital birth defects. The ...

BERLIN—Prevention of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease can be achieved either with prophylactic or preemptive use of antiviral agents after kidney transplantation, but prophylaxis is associated with a ...