[Articles] Immunological profile of pregnant women with preconception immunity with or without vertical transmission of human cytomegalovirus to the fetus: a retrospective observational study

Immune women with intrauterine human CMV transmission have distinct immunological parameters (different from immune women without CMV transmission, but similar to women with primary infection) and might be those who had a primary human CMV infection within a few years earlier before maternal immunity development was completed. A vaccine able to elicit a fully developed maternal immunity to human CMV is likely to be protective for the fetus.