FIG. 10.

Comparative median levels (horizontal lines with values beside arrows) of DNA in amniotic fluid of mothers with symptomatic (sympt) and asymptomatic (asympt) fetuses. While in both groups all (symptomatic) or most of the (asymptomatic) fetuses showed high levels of HCMV DNA (>10⁵ genome equivalents [GE]/ml), in the asymptomatic group there were seven fetuses, four of whom had DNA levels of <10² genome equivalents/ml and three with undetectable DNA levels at the time of amniocentesis. (M. G. Revello and G. Gerna, unpublished data.)