Pediatric cytomegalovirus pneumonia

Most symptoms of cytomegalovirus infection are not apparent in congenital or acquired cases. Symptoms are called cytomegalic inclusion disease, and cytomegalovirus pneumonia is a component of this type of disease. CMV is mostly a recessive infection that can also cause giant cell inclusion disease, which can occur before, during, or after birth. Those who occur before birth (infant infection) are congenital infections; if they are infected at birth or after birth, they are congenital infections, the former mainly manifested as damage to the central nervous system, and the latter often have serious lesions of lung tissue.

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