TY - JOUR T1 - Seen but not heard: congenital cytomegalovirus JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F390 LP - F390 DO - 10.1136/fetalneonatal-2012-301965 VL - 97 IS - 5 AU - G Harrison AU - A Waters AU - C F De Gascun AU - M Boyle AU - S Knowles AU - E J Molloy Y1 - 2012/09/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/97/5/F390.abstract N2 - In their important recent article, Townsend and colleagues conclude that the number of confirmed congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) diagnoses is lower than expected.1 This is unsurprising as only 5%–10% of infected children are symptomatic at birth.2 However, a further 10%–15% of infected infants will develop long-term sequelae, despite being asymptomatic and therefore undiagnosed at birth.3 We report an Irish experience. We calculated the incidence and reviewed the outcomes of symptomatic cCMV in babies born between … ER -