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Autistic symptoms in a child with congenital cytomegaloviras infection

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A case of intrauterine cytomegalovirus infection with onset of autistic symptoms apparently after 6 months of age is reported. Physicians who find autistic symptoms in very young children might include cytomegalovirus in their differential to document the presence or absence of a correlation.

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  1. Crippled Children's Division, University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, P.O. Box 574, 97207, Portland, Oregon

    E. Gene Stubbs

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The author wishes to thank Ms. Barbara Carson for typing the manuscript.

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Stubbs, E.G. Autistic symptoms in a child with congenital cytomegaloviras infection. J Autism Dev Disord 8, 37–43 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01550276

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