ReviewViruses2018
Maternal Immunity and the Natural History of Congenital Human Cytomegalovirus Infection.
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64 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 113 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hygiene-based measures for the prevention of cytomegalovirus infection in pregnant women: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Pooled it
- Foscarnet Versus Ganciclovir for Severe Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Short- and Long-Term Follow-Up.Viruses · 2025Trial
- Inhibitory effects of acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid (AKBA) on human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in vitro.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Article
- Chronobiology of neurotropic viruses: rhythmic viral entry and arrhythmic host clocks.Cell discovery · 2026Article
- Viral Vertical Transmission through the Placenta: The Potential of Natural Products as Therapeutic and Prophylactic Antiviral Agents.Current topics in medicinal chemistry · 2026Review
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- Human cytomegalovirus: pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment.Molecular biomedicine · 2024Review
- Immune surveillance of cytomegalovirus in tissues.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2024Review
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- Overview of Cytomegalovirus Ocular Diseases: Retinitis, Corneal Endotheliitis, and Iridocyclitis.Viruses · 2024Review
- Unusual cerebral intraventricular hemorrhage and cardiomyopathy related to congenital cytomegalovirus from non-primary maternal infection: a case report.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Congenital cytomegalovirus infection in newborns suspected of congenital rubella syndrome in Iran: a cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
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- Current Knowledge on the Interaction of Human Cytomegalovirus Infection, Encoded miRNAs, and Acute Aortic Syndrome.Viruses · 2023Review
- Modeling and Remodeling the Cell: How Digital Twins and HCMV Can Elucidate the Complex Interactions of Viral Latency, Epigenetic Regulation, and Immune Responses.Current clinical microbiology reports · 2023Article
- Stabilization of the human cytomegalovirus UL136p33 reactivation determinant overcomes the requirement for UL135 for replication in hematopoietic cells.Journal of virology · 2023Article
- When AHR signaling pathways meet viral infections.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2023Review
- Horizontal transmission of endemic viruses among rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): Implications for human cytomegalovirus vaccine/challenge design.Journal of medical primatology · 2023Article
- Minimal adverse outcomes of postnatal cytomegalovirus infection in term or moderate and late preterm infants.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
4 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Congenital human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the most common viral infection of the developing fetus, and a significant cause of neurodevelopmental abnormalities in infants and children. Congenital HCMV infections account for an estimated 25% of all cases of hearing loss in the US. It has long been argued that maternal adaptive immune responses to HCMV can modify both the likelihood of intrauterine transmission of HCMV, and the severity of fetal infection and risk of long term sequelae in infected infants. Over the last two decades, multiple studies have challenged this paradigm, including findings that have demonstrated that the vast majority of infants with congenital HCMV infections in most populations are born to women with established immunity prior to conception. Furthermore, the incidence of clinically apparent congenital HCMV infection in infants born to immune and non-immune pregnant women appears to be similar. These findings from natural history studies have important implications for the design, development, and testing of prophylactic vaccines and biologics for this perinatal infection. This brief overview will provide a discussion of existing data from human natural history studies and animal models of congenital HCMV infections that have described the role of maternal immunity in the natural history of this perinatal infection.
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