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Published on: July 9, 2014
Evaluation of screening tests for congenital cytomegalovirus infection
1Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan. ninoue@nih.go.jp
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|January 5, 2008
Abstract:
Although the use of dried blood spots has been proposed for screening of newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus infection, viral loads in blood were significantly smaller than those in urine (P < 0.001), and DNA recovery from dried blood spots using the thermal shock procedure was inefficient. In contrast, our urine-based screening program identified asymptomatic cases with low viral loads in blood.
