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Kytia B. Balcarek, MD; Regina Bagley, RN; Gretchen Cloud, MS; Robert F. Pass, MD
University of Alabama School of Medicine Birmingham

JAMA. 1990;264(2):185.

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Drs Farr and Torner wish us to focus on pediatric nurses in assessing occupational risk of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in hospital workers. We believe this approach reflects a limited understanding of what the wide variety of workers in a children's hospital actually do and of what is known about transmission of CMV. What is a nurse? Does this title include RNs, LPNs, nurse's aides, nurse educators, and nurse administrators? We believe the most important consideration in examining risk of CMV infection in hospital workers is exposure. Based on what has been learned from studies in families and day-care centers, exposure to young CMV-infected children increases the risk of CMV infection for susceptible adults in those settings.^1,2 Since young children shed CMV for months to years, any group of children probably will include some shedding virus. We therefore examined rates of CMV infection in relation to this . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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