Source Title:
Journal of Perinatal Medicine
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Volume/Issue:
Volume 43: Issue 2

Low total IgM values and high cytomegalovirus loads in the blood of newborns with symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection

Yoko Kobayashi 1 , Ichiro Morioka 2 , Tsubasa Koda 2 , Yuji Nakamachi 1 , Yoko Okazaki 1 , Yoriko Noguchi 1 , Miki Ogi 3 , Masatsugu Chikahira 3 , Kenji Tanimura 4 , Yasuhiko Ebina 4 , Toru Funakoshi 5 , Masanobu Ohashi 6 , Kazumoto Iijima 2 , Naoki Inoue 7 , Seiji Kawano 1 , and Hideto Yamada 4
  • 1 Department of Clinical Laboratory, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan
  • 2 Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan
  • 3 Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Consumer Sciences, Infectious Disease Research Division, Kobe, Japan
  • 4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan
  • 5 Department of Obstetrics, Kobe Children’s Hospital, Kobe, Japan
  • 6 Nadeshiko Ladies Hospital, Kobe, Japan
  • 7 National Institute of Infectious Disease, Department of Virology I, Tokyo, Japan; and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan
Yoko Kobayashi, Ichiro Morioka, Tsubasa Koda, Yuji Nakamachi, Yoko Okazaki, Yoriko Noguchi, Miki Ogi, Masatsugu Chikahira, Kenji Tanimura, Yasuhiko Ebina, Toru Funakoshi, Masanobu Ohashi, Kazumoto Iijima, Naoki Inoue, Seiji Kawano and Hideto Yamada
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2014-0071
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Published online:
26 Jun 2014

Abstract

Aims: Neurological outcomes differ considerably between symptomatic and asymptomatic infants with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. Our objective was to characterize laboratory markers in symptomatic newborns in comparison with asymptomatic newborns with congenital CMV infection.

Methods: Ten newborns with symptomatic and 13 newborns with asymptomatic congenital CMV infection were included in this 3-year prospective cohort study. Total immunoglobulin M (IgM), CMV-IgM, CMV antigenemia, and CMV-DNA in blood and urine were measured and their positive rates and quantitative values compared between the symptomatic and asymptomatic groups.

Results: Fifty percent of newborns in the symptomatic group were positive based on total IgM; this was significantly lower than in the asymptomatic group (100%). Quantitative total IgM values were significantly lower, and there were significantly more copies of CMV-DNA in the blood of symptomatic newborns than in asymptomatic newborns (median values for total IgM: 14 vs. 43 mg/dL and blood CMV-DNA: 3.2×102 vs. 3.5×101 copies/106 white blood cells). CMV-IgM, CMV antigenemia, and urine CMV-DNA did not differ significantly between groups.

Conclusion: Low total IgM values and high blood CMV loads were associated with the presence of symptoms in newborns with congenital CMV infection.

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Corresponding author: Ichiro Morioka, Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Hospital 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan, Tel.: +81-78-382-6090, Fax: +81-78-382-6099, E-mail:

aYoko Kobayashi and Ichiro Morioka contributed equally to this work.

Received:
2014-02-26
Accepted:
2014-06-11
Published Online:
2014-06-26
Published in Print:
2015-03-01

Citation Information: 
Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Volume 43, Issue 2, Pages 239–243, eISSN 1619-3997, ISSN 0300-5577, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2014-0071.

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