Figure 1.
A flow diagram of study population and urine CMV screening of newborns. CMV, cytomegalovirus. During the study period, 5174 pregnant women visited to the university hospital. 448 pregnancies ended in spontaneous miscarriages or stillbirth, and 346 pregnant women delivered at other hospitals. A total of 4380 pregnant women who gave birth at the university hospital and their 4613 newborns who received PCR tests for CMV-DNA in the urine were enrolled. cCMV was diagnosed in 32 newborns (0.69%), including 20 newborns with symptomatic infection and 12 with asymptomatic infection.
