Cytomegalovirus Enterocolitis in a Term Neonate
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Intractable diarrhoea caused by cytomegalovirus enterocolitis in an immunocompetent term neonate.
Symptomatic cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection mainly affects preterm and immunocompromised infants and usually manifest as rash, pneumonia, hepatospleenomegaly or encephalitis. To our knowledge intractable diarrhoea at two weeks of age caused by postnatally acquired CMV in immunocompetent term neonate is not reported. An unusual case of postnatally acquired CMV enterocolitis manifesting as protra...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Pediatrics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0019-6061,0974-7559
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-018-1252-1