Medically reviewed by Cordelia Nwankwo, MD Key Takeaways CMV is common and stays in the body for life.Congenital CMV can lead ...

Laura Gibson is an associate professor of medicine and of pediatrics at UMass Chan Medical School. CMV belongs to the same virus family as cold sores and chickenpox and, like those viruses, lives in ...

A new study indicates that noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS) performed using a low-cost form of whole genome sequencing ...

The C in TORCH stands for CMV – cytomegalovirus, a type of herpesvirus that infects between 50% and 85% of adults in the U.S. and almost all adults in other parts of the world. Most of us never ...

Explore the benefits of prenatal DNA screening to detect cytomegalovirus in early pregnancy for better health decisions.

A National Institutes of Health-supported nationwide clinical trial will test a novel approach to combat hearing loss in children infected by a relatively unknown virus, cytomegalovirus (CMV). CMV is ...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous member of the Betaherpesvirinae that infects the majority of the human population. Although primary infection is often asymptomatic in immunocompetent ...

A research team at the University of Córdoba is studying the alterations that occur in the immune system's T lymphocytes with respect to age and in relation to the cytomegalovirus herpesvirus. T ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to her in the womb. While the virus can exist in a person for life without ...

Mathematical modeling can be a powerful tool for taking a systems-based approach to understanding virus-host interactions and simulating clinical trials that test therapeutic efficacy. Drs. Elizabeth ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global CMV therapeutics market 2019-2023 is expected to post a CAGR of nearly 5% during the forecast period, according to the latest market research report by Technavio.