Cytomegalovirus DNA quantitative

General information:

Cytomegalovirus (Cytomegalovirus hominis) belongs to the group of herpes viruses.
Transmission requires direct contact with bodily fluids (such as saliva, urine, blood, semen, vaginal secretions, or breast milk) from an infected person. Infection occurs through kissing, breastfeeding, sexual contact, blood transfusion or organ or bone marrow transplantation. Cytomegalovirus infection is contagious to individuals who have not been previously exposed to the virus.
Contagion occurs through direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person. Most women who have infants infected with cytomegalovirus before birth pass it on to the baby when their latent infection becomes active in the blood during pregnancy.

Signs and symptoms of CMV infection at birth:

• deafness;
• jaundice;
• premature birth;
• low birth weight;
• enlarged liver and spleen;
• microcephaly;

Sample required:

Venous blood, eye, buccal secretion

Key words:

cytomegalovirus, DNA