Cytomegalovirus infection during pregnancy: cross-sectional survey of knowledge and prevention practices of healthcare professionals in French-speaking Switzerland | Virology Journal

Interpretation

Knowledge of CMV

Our results showed that the knowledge of the perinatal healthcare professionals from French-speaking Switzerland surveyed highlighted significant gaps and was insufficient to enable optimal patient management. The literature has shown that a lack of CMV knowledge leads to insufficient patient awareness of the virus and a higher risk of seroconversion during pregnancy [10, 22, 23, 31, 39] but also to an increased risk of misdiagnosis, as well as a delay in the care of infected women, fetuses and newborns [22,