Incidence of Postnatal CMV Infection among Breastfed Preterm Infants: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the incidence of breast milk-acquired cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in preterm infants born to CMV-seropositive mothers.

Methods

PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases were searched using the terms: ("breast feeding" or "breast milk" or "human milk" or "breast") and ("HCMV" or "cytomegalovirus") and ("infant, extremely premature" or "premature birth" or "newborn" or "neonate" or "low birth weight" or "very low birth weight" or "premature" or "preterm infant"). Studies that had information on CMV status and breast feeding were included in the meta-analysis.

Results

A total of 2,502 newborns from 19 studies were included in this meta-analysis. The rate of postnatally acquired CMV infecti

SUBMITTER: Park HW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8007418 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature