BookGabriele Halwachs-Baumann, editor.
Summary: Congenital cytomegalovirus infection is the most common intrauterine transmitted viral infection. This book details the history of this disease, its pathophysiological background, epidemiology and symptoms as well as diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.
Contents:
Long known, long ignored- a brief history of cytomegalovirus research
Virus-host interaction for defence and transmission
Epidemiology: the influence of socioeconomic differences
Prospects and obstacles of diagnosis
Clinical outcome: acute symptoms and sleeping hazards
Prevention and therapy: more than trial and error
How to save money: congenital CMV infection and the economy.