EVALUATION OF SCREENING TESTS FOR CONGENITAL CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION
- 1 February 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Vol. 27 (2), 182-184
- https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0b013e318161a2d5
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.Keywords
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