Academic Editors: Masatoki Kaneko and Michael H. Dahan
Background: There are no detailed reports in the literature on
maternal cytomegalovirus antibody screening for universal newborn hearing
screening (UNHS) referral patients. We examined maternal cytomegalovirus antibody
screening results and estimated the incidence of maternal primary cytomegalovirus
infection among UNHS referral patients. Methods: During
September 2013–March 2021, fresh urine samples were collected in the first week
after birth from 98 neonates with UNHS referral results at 15 obstetrical
institutions in Mie, Japan (the first hearing screening). We performed a
real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis to detect cytomegalovirus DNA in the
samples. Infants with