Are female daycare workers at greater risk of cytomegalovirus infection? A secondary data analysis of CMV seroprevalence between 2010 and 2013 in Hamburg, Germany

• Main Authors: Stranzinger, Johanna (Author), Kozak, Agnessa (Author), Schilgen, Benjamin (Author), Paris, Diana (Author), Nießen, Thomas (Author), Schmidt, Lutz (Author), Wille, Andreas (Author), Wagner, Norbert L. (Author), Nienhaus, Albert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House, 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Close contact with asymptomatic children younger than three years is a risk factor for a primary cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. In pregnant women, such primary infection increases the risk of CMV-induced feto- or embryopathy. Daycare providers have therefore implemented working restric...