[Cytomegalovirus, pregnancy and occupational risk].
BACKGROUND
Female health professionals are not more likely to contract cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection than the general population.


METHODS
Generalized congenital infection was diagnosed in a neonate. His mother was a nurse working the 2 first trimesters of her pregnancy in close-contact with AIDS patients chronically infected with CMV.


CONCLUSIONS
Preventive measures to avoid CMV transmission among health-care professionals are controversial. The only guideline actually receiving universal agreement consists of standard hospital measures of hygiene.
Boussemart
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Unité de néonatologie, hôpital d'enfants Armand-Trousseau, Paris, France.
Baudon
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Garbarg-Chenon
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Costil
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D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000451:nursing / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology; D000328:Adult; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D009726:Nurses; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000821:virology*; D012307:Risk Factors