Chronological changes of incidence and prognosis of children with asymptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection in Sapporo, Japan

BMC Infectious Diseases

Tomoko Fujikawa¹  Kei Numazaki¹ 

[1]Department of Pediatrics, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine Sapporo, 060-8543, Japan

关键词: intracellular cytokine;    sensorineural hearing loss;    congenital infection;    cytomegalovirus;   

Others  :  1177086
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2334-4-22

 received in 2003-12-09, accepted in 2004-07-06,  发布年份 2004

【 摘 要 】

Background

Chronological changes of the incidence of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and the longitudinal prognosis in children with asymptomatic congenital infection were investigated.

Methods

Congenital CMV infection, as demonstrated by isolation of the virus within the first week of life, was diagnosed in infants born in Sapporo, Japan, during the 26-year period between 1977 and 2002.

Results

Congenital infection was diagnosed in 37 (0.31%) of 11,938 infants. Thirty-two infants were (86.5%) asymptomatic and 5 (13.5%) were symptomatic at birth.

Conclusions

Although a decrease in the total incidence of congenital CMV infection has been seen in recent years, screening of congenital infection at birth seems to be necessary to detect late-onset neurodevelopmental sequelae.

【 授权许可】

   
2004 Numazaki and Fujikawa; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.

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