Resources

• Identifying Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Early in Life: Information for Healthcare Provider [2 pages]
• Talking with Pregnant Patients about CMV: A Resource for Healthcare Providers [2 pages]
• Congenital CMV and Hearing Loss: What’s the Risk?
  Dr. Tatiana Lanzieri, a medical epidemiologist at CDC, discusses recent findings from a study on hearing loss among children with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, as part of the CDC Expert Commentary series on Medscape.
• Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
  Information from the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC.
• Intellectual Disability [2 pages]
  Information about intellectual disabilities from CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
• A Randomized Trial to Prevent Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
  A study to determine whether treating pregnant women who have a primary CMV infection with CMV antibodies will reduce the number of babies infected with CMV.
• Parent-to-Parent Support Network
  The National Congenital CMV Disease Registry assists nearly 600 families affected by CMV by providing a way to exchange information and by offering help and support to one another. When you join or update your profile, we will send you the current parent list.
• National CMV Foundation
  A foundation with the mission is to increase awareness of CMV, provide information to help prevent and eliminate CMV, and become an advocate for those who are affected by congenital CMV.
• Congenital Cytomegalovirus Foundation
  A non-profit organization dedicated to raising public awareness about congenital CMV.

 

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Selected Publications

• American Academy of Pediatrics. Cytomegalovirus Infection. In: Kimberlin DW, Brady MT, Jackson MA, Long SS, eds. Red Book^®: 2015 Report Of The Committee on Infectious Diseases. American Academy of Pediatrics; 2015; 317-322
• Cannon, M. J., Schmid, D. S., & Hyde, T. B. (2010). Review of cytomegalovirus seroprevalence and demographic characteristics associated with infection. Rev Med Virol, 20(4), 202-213.
• Enders, G., Daiminger, A., Bader, U., Exler, S., & Enders, M. (2011). Intrauterine transmission and clinical outcome of 248 pregnancies with primary cytomegalovirus infection in relation to gestational age. J Clin Virol, 52(3), 244-246.
• Grosse, S. D., Dollard, S., Ross, D. S., & Cannon, M. (2009). Newborn screening for congenital cytomegalovirus: Options for hospital-based and public health programs. J Clin Virol, 46 Suppl 4, S32-36.
• Kimberlin, D. W., Jester, P. M., Sanchez, P. J., Ahmed, A., Arav-Boger, R., Michaels, M. G., et al. (2015). Valganciclovir for symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus disease. N Engl J Med, 372(10), 933-943.
• Krause, P. R., Bialek, S. R., Boppana, S. B., Griffiths, P. D., Laughlin, C. A., Ljungman, P., et al. (2013). Priorities for CMV vaccine development. Vaccine, 32(1), 4-10.
• Kurath, S., Halwachs-Baumann, G., Muller, W., & Resch, B. (2010). Transmission of cytomegalovirus via breast milk to the prematurely born infant: a systematic review. Clin Microbiol Infect, 16(8), 1172-1178.
• Practice bulletin no. 151: Cytomegalovirus, parvovirus B19, varicella zoster, and toxoplasmosis in pregnancy. (2015). Obstetrics & Gynecology, 125(6), 1510-1525.
• Revello, M. G., Tibaldi, C., Masuelli, G., Frisina, V., Sacchi, A., Furione, M., et al. (2015). Prevention of Primary Cytomegalovirus Infection in Pregnancy. EBioMedicine, 2(9), 1205-1210.
• Ross, D. S., & Fowler, K. B. (2008). Cytomegalovirus: A Major Cause of Hearing Loss in Children. The ASHA Leader, 13(6), 14-17.