Relationship of maternal cytomegalovirus-specific antibody responses and viral load to vertical transmission risk following primary maternal infection in a rhesus macaque model
C. E. Otero, R. Barfield, E. Scheef, C. S. Nelson, N. Rodgers, H.-Y. Wang, M. Moström, T. D. Manuel, J. Sass, K. Schmidt, H. Taher, C. Papen, L. Sprehe, S. Kendall, A. Davalos, , S. R. Permar
This study investigates maternal cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibody responses and viral load in rhesus macaques to determine their association with vertical transmission risk, finding no link between plasma viremia or humoral responses and congenital CMV in immunocompetent dams.
bioRxiv · Apr 21, 2023Immunology