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Number of infants with unilateral and bilateral hearing loss according to the presence of HCMV as determined by the quantitative PCRa
| HCMV status | No. assigned hearing loss at birth
|
No. assigned hearing loss after 24 mo
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unilateral | Bilateral | Unilateral | Bilateral | None | |
| Positive | 4 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| Negative | 22 | 36 | 17 | 26 | 15 |
| Total | 26 | 44 | 20 | 35 | 15 |
Only data from infants for whom results were available at birth and after a 24-month follow-up were used.
