Letter to the Editor on the original article: Lower prevalence of congenital cytomegalovirus infection in Portugal: possible impact of COVID-19 lockdown?

Eur J Pediatr. 2022 Mar;181(3):1293-1294. doi: 10.1007/s00431-021-04354-y. Epub 2022 Jan 29.

María Ríos-Barnés¹, Melissa Andrea Fontalvo², Nerea Liñán³, Montserrat Plana², María Moreno², Cristina Esteva^{3

4}, Carmen Muñoz-Almagro^{3

4

5}, Antoni Noguera-Julian^#^{6

7

8

9}, Ana Alarcón^#^{2

10}; CRIB Study team

¹ Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases and Systemic Inflammatory Response in Pediatrics, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.
² Department of Neonatology, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Department of Molecular Microbiology, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Center for Biomedical Network Research On Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases and Systemic Inflammatory Response in Pediatrics, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain. ton@hsjdbcn.es.
⁷ Center for Biomedical Network Research On Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. ton@hsjdbcn.es.
⁸ Translational Research Network in Pediatric Infectious Diseases (RITIP), Madrid, Spain. ton@hsjdbcn.es.
⁹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. ton@hsjdbcn.es.
¹⁰ Department of Pediatrics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

^# Contributed equally.

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Keywords: Behavioral interventions; COVID-19; Congenital cytomegalovirus infection; Lockdown.

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