Freeze-thawing of breast milk does not prevent cytomegalovirus transmission to a preterm infant

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Freezing human milk is recommended to inactivate cytomegalovirus (CMV). A case of a preterm infant exclusively receiving frozen breast milk from his CMV seropositive mother showed that storage of breast milk for two months at -20°C did not prevent symptomatic postnatal CMV infection.

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Maschmann, J., Hamprecht, K., Weissbrich, B., Dietz, K., Jahn, G., & Speer, C. P. (2006). Freeze-thawing of breast milk does not prevent cytomegalovirus transmission to a preterm infant. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 91(4). https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2004.050625

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