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. 2015 Feb;22(2):245-7.
doi: 10.1128/CVI.00697-14. Epub 2014 Dec 17.

Seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus among children 1 to 5 years of age in the United States from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 2011 to 2012

Tatiana M Lanzieri  1 , Deanna Kruszon-Moran  2 , Minal M Amin  3 , Stephanie R Bialek  3 , Michael J Cannon  4 , Margaret D Carroll  2 , Sheila C Dollard  3
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Seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus among children 1 to 5 years of age in the United States from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 2011 to 2012

Tatiana M Lanzieri et al. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2015 Feb.

Abstract

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) seroprevalence among U.S. children 1 to 5 years old was assessed in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 2011 to 2012. The overall seroprevalence (95% confidence interval) of IgG was 20.7% (14.4 to 28.2%), that of IgM was 1.1% (0.4 to 2.4%), and that of low IgG avidity was 3.6% (1.7 to 6.6%), corresponding to a 17.3% (10.1 to 26.7%) prevalence of recent infection among IgG-positive children.

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