Therapeutics to prevent congenital cytomegalovirus during pregnancy: what is available now and in the future?
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congenital cytomegalovirus infection. J. Infect. Dis. 209, 1573–1584. doi:10.1093/ infdis/jiu019 31. Williams, E.J. et al. (2013) Viral infections: contributions to late fetal death, stillbirth, and infant death. J. Pediatr. 163, 424–428. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2013. 02.004 32. Lorenzoni, F. et al. (2014) Neonatal screening for congenital cytomegalovirus infection in preterm and small for gestational age infants. J. Matern. Fetal Neonatal Med. 27, 1589–1593. 33. Xie, F. et al. (2010) An association between cytomegalovirus infection and preeclampsia: a case-control study and data synthesis. Acta Obstet. Gynecol. Scand. 89, 1162–1167. doi:10.3109/00016349.2010.499449 Biography Wendy van Zuylen is a postdoctoral scientist in the School of Medical Sciences, Faculty ofMedicine at theUniversity ofNewSouth Wales. Her current research at the Virology Research Laboratory aims to understand the pathogenesis of congenital cytomegalovirus infection.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015