Special Topic: Congenital CMV Infection
Information for Healthcare Professionals and Families
- What is CMV? (National CMV Foundation)
- CMV and Congenital CMV Infections (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Resources for Families, Professionals, and the Community (Colorado EHDI Alliance)
- Family Resources (Colorado Hands & Voices)
- Colorado Newborn Hearing Screening Program [Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE)]
- Medical Evaluation for Newborns with Hearing Loss (Colorado Newborn Hearing Screening Program)
Handouts
- Why is My Baby Being Tested for congenital CMV infection? (Simplified, 08.22)
- ¿Por qué mi bebé se está haciendo la prueba para la infección congénita por CMV? (Simplificado, 08.22)
- We invite you and your child with congenital CMV to join the Colorado cCMV Family Network (AAP-CO & CO Hands and Voices)
- Les invitamos a usted y a su hijo/a que padece del CMV congénito a unirse a la Red Familiar de Colorado para el cCMV (Spanish Version)
- Babies born with Congenital CMV infection (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Congenital CMV and Hearing Loss (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- CMV Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Family handout on Unilateral Hearing Loss, English
- Family handout on Unilateral Hearing Loss, Spanish
Videos
- AAP-CO cCMV Webinar (May 11, 2021)
- Alto CMV Arizona: Manos y Voces Arizona (Spanish)
- CMV, more Common than Zika, but less-known (posted with permission from Denver Post/MediaNews Group)
- Congenital CMV: A Webinar for Early Intervention Providers
- Congenital CMV: A Webinar for Midwives in Colorado (Access Passcode: UG#$4N*O)
- Information about cCMV in American Sign Language
Targeted screening
- Information about Congenital CMV for Pediatric Hospitalists and Other Clinicians Who See Newborns
- Labs Offering Testing for CMV in Newborns
- Procedure for Requesting a Newborn Dried Blood Spot for CMV Testing
- Targeted Screening for Congenital CMV
- Flow Diagram: How to Screen for Congenital CMV
Re
search
- Baylor College of Medicine CMV Research Group
- University of Alabama Birmingham CHIMES Study
- The University of Minnesota, Schleiss Laboratory
- NCHAM congenital CMV Research & Innovations Webinar Series
- Sallie Permar, M.D., Ph.D. at Weill Cornell Medicine
Advocacy for cCMV
