Open AccessAssociation Between Congenital Cytomegalovirus and the Prevalence at Birth of Microcephaly in the United States
Author(s) -
Chelsea J. Messinger,
Marc Lipsitch,
Brian T. Bateman,
Mengdong He,
Krista F. Huybrechts,
Sarah Macdonald,
Helen Mogun,
Katrina Mott,
Sonia Hernández–Dı́az
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jama pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.004
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 2168-6211
pISSN - 2168-6203
DOI - 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3009
Subject(s) - medicine , microcephaly , pediatrics , cytomegalovirus , association (psychology) , cytomegalovirus infections , demography , human cytomegalovirus , virology , herpesviridae , viral disease , virus , sociology , philosophy , epistemology
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) has received far less clinical and public health attention as a teratogenic infection than the Zika virus epidemic. However, cCMV may be responsible for a large fraction of microcephaly cases in the United States.
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