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. 1973 May 5;2(5861):268–270. doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.5861.268

Prospective Study of Cytomegalovirus Infection in Pregnancy

H Stern, S M Tucker
PMCID: PMC1589192  PMID: 4350110

Abstract

In a prospective study of cytomegalovirus infection in 1,040 pregnant women in London 319 (42%) of the white Englishwomen but only 28 (10%) of the immigrant Asian women were without antibodies at the onset of pregnancy. Out of 254 susceptible white women and 16 susceptible Asian women 8 (3%) and 3 (16%) respectively experienced primary infection during the course of pregnancy. The overall incidence of fetal infection after primary infection in the mother was almost 50%, and was higher in early pregnancy. One out of the five infected infants was found to be mentally retarded.

Reactivation of latent infection was recognized in 0·7-2·9% of pregnant women; this occurred without involving the fetus.

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