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Saliva is effective in screening for CMV infection in newborns, says NIH-funded research – 3
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. Congenital cytomegalovirus or CMV is commonly passed from a mother to her newborn. Of the 20,000-30,000 infants who are born infected with CMV each year, about 10-15 percent are at risk for developing hearing loss. Dr. Bracie Watson a program officer at NIH explains why researchers decided to explore a new screening for CMV.
Watson: Our first paper came out last year, showed that using the dry blood spot was likely missing a significant number of babies with CMV. So we went on to develop a different test using saliva rather than blood.
Narrator: For more information, visit www.nidcd.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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