Cytomegalovirus infection and disease in the Jerusalem area.
We studied the epidemiology of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in women and neonates in the Jerusalem area. During the 6-month period from January to June 1982, we recorded the presence of antibody to CMV in pregnant and parturient Jewish and Arab women from West and East Jerusalem, respectively, in 18- to 22-year-old female students at a religious college, in female university students, in 18- to 22-year-old student nurses, and in the nursing staff of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in our hospital. In the 18- to 22-year-old age-group, the religious college students not working in a medical setting had the lowest rate of seropositivity. No difference in the rate of CMV infection was found between Jewish and Arab parturient women. In five cases of congenital CMV infection, representing different clinical aspects of the disease, a comparative study of diagnostic procedures for congenital CMV infection was performed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D003587:Cytomegalovirus / Q000276:immunology; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology*
D000914:Antibodies, Viral