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Special Topic: Congenital CMV Infection

Information

• What is CMV? (National CMV Foundation)
• CMV and Congenital CMV Infections (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Colorado Newborn Hearing Screening Program [Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE)]
• Family Resources (Colorado Hands & Voices)
• How to check newborn hearing screen results for your patients
• Medical Evaluation for Newborns with Hearing Loss (Colorado Newborn Hearing Screening Program)
• Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Resources for Families, Professionals, and the Community (Colorado EHDI Alliance)

Handouts

• Why is My Baby Being Tested for cCMV? (AAP-CO & CO Hands and Voices)
  • ¿Por qué le están haciendo las pruebas para infección de CMV congénito a mi bebe? (Spanish Version)
• 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)

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)
• CMV Stops With Me (Nebraska EHDI Program Awareness Video)
• Congenital CMV: A Webinar for Early Intervention Providers
• Congenital CMV: A Webinar for Midwives in Colorado (Access Passcode: UG#$4N*O)

Targeted screening

• How to check newborn hearing screen results in Colorado
• 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

Research

• 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

• Information about advocacy for CMV education and screening