[Cytomegalovirus infection in clinical medicine]

The author provides the data on studies into cytomegaloviral infection for many years, the results of examinations made during prospective clinico-virological and immunological follow up of 236 women with an unfavourable obstetrical disease history and verified cytomegaloviral infection. The diagnosis, epidemiology and the spectrum of the clinico-pathogenetic patterns of the infection are under discussion. The use of the immunocorrective drugs (levamisole, T activin) for the treatment of the private patterns of cytomegaloviral infection provided beneficial results. The prospects of further study into the problem are analyzed.