We compared a group of 40 susceptible pregnant women who acquired CMV during gestation with a group of 86 women of similar race and socioeconomic background who remained seronegative to define factors associated with the risk of CMV infection during pregnancy. A logistic regression model using a ste
Relationship between seropositivity of husbands and primary cytomegalovirus infection during pregnancy
โ Scribed by K. Numazaki; T. Fujikawa; S. Chiba
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 44 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1341-321X
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