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http://dx.doi.org/10.3345/kjp.2009.52.9.1053

Postnatal cytomegalovirus infection in an extremely premature infant transmitted via breast milk: A case report  

Kim, Ji Hye (Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University School of Medicine)
Chung, Eun-Jin (Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University School of Medicine)
Park, Hyun Kyung (Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University School of Medicine)
Moon, Soo Ji (Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University School of Medicine)
Choi, Su-Mi (Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
Oh, Sung Hee (Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University School of Medicine)
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Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics / v.52, no.9, 2009 , pp. 1053-1058 More about this Journal
Abstract
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the most commonly encountered viral pathogens in newborn infants and is found in 0.3-2.4% of all live births. It has been demonstrated that 40-96% of seropositive mothers shed the virus via their breast milk. Breast milk containing CMV can cause almost one-third of CMV infections occurring in infants. A case of postnatal CMV infection in an extremely premature infant (gestational age $24^{+5}$ weeks, birth weight 750 g) transmitted via breast milk is presented. For neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) management of severe thrombocytopenia, anemia, and sepsis syndrome, the infant received repeated transfusions of platelets; intravenous (IV) immunoglobulins; and gamma- irradiated, filtrated packed red cells and was fed her mother's breast milk since the second week of life. CMV infection was diagnosed with positive CMV immunoglobulin M (IgM) and positive urine CMV culture at the second month of life. Considering the negative CMV IgM and urine CMV culture at birth, postnatally-acquired CMV infection was suspected and confirmed with completely identical nucleotide sequence alignments of the infantile blood isolate and the maternal breast milk isolate. To our knowledge, this is the first case of proven postnatal CMV infection transmitted via breast milk in an extremely premature infant in Korea.
Keywords
Cytomegalovirus; Glycoprotein B; Breast milk; Infant; Very low birth weight;
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