Shell vial culture로 진단한 선천성 거대 세포 바이러스 감염증 1례

A Case of Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection Diagnosed by Shell Vial Culture

Cytomegalovirus is the leading cause of congenital viral infection. The prevalence rate of congenital infection is 0.2-2.5% of all live births. The infection may be congenital, but it is most often aquired during birth, breast milk, blood transfusions, organ transplantations, perinatal infections. The vast majority of these infections are chronic, subclinical forms, but symptomatic infections are sufficiently prevalent and dangerous to present a major unresolved health problem throughout the world. We experienced one case of congenital cytomegalovirus infection. The case was hospitalized in our hospital because of convulsion. She was characterized by microcephaly, hepatomegaly, convulsion, periventricular calcifications on brain CT. We could confirmed the congenital cytomegalovirus infection by shell vial culture. We report this case with brief rewiew fo literature.