Neurological and growth outcomes in South African children with congenital cytomegalovirus: A cohort study.

Jayani PathiranaLeanne TexeiraHannah MunianFirdose NakwaIsmail MayetInnocent MaposaMichelle J GroomeSuresh BoppanaShabir Ahmed Madhi

Published in: PloS one (2020)

By 12 months of age, there was no evidence of a difference in neurological sequelae between cCMV infected South African children and cCMV uninfected children in this study. Further follow-up is warranted to detect late-onset hearing loss and neurodevelopmental delay beyond 12 months of age.

Keyphrases

late onset
young adults
early onset
type diabetes
skeletal muscle
blood brain barrier
brain injury
congenital heart disease
weight loss
glycemic control