Relationship of Maternal Cytomegalovirus-Specific Antibody Responses and Viral Load to Vertical Transmission Risk Following Primary Maternal Infection in a Rhesus Macaque Model

Scientists characterized the kinetics of maternal plasma rhesus cytomegalovirus (RhCMV) viral load and RhCMV-specific antibody binding and functional responses in a group of 12 immunocompetent dams with acute, primary RhCMV infection.