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Congenital cytomegalovirus disease
2024 Case Definition

Congenital cytomegalovirus disease
2024 Case Definition
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NOTE: A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient’s health needs.

Subtype(s)

  • Congenital Cytomegalovirus (cCMV) Infection and Disease
  • Congenital cytomegalovirus infection

Case Classification

Probable

  • Meets clinical criteria AND presumptive laboratory evidence.

Confirmed

  • Meets clinical criteria AND confirmatory laboratory evidence.

Related Case Definition(s)

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Last Reviewed: February 26, 2024
Source: Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology