By identifying its connection with cytomegalovirus infection, we have now identified an important trigger for NEC, which could save the lives of premature infants who develop this condition." ...

Despite staff at the George Eliot Hospital ordering tests to rule out cytomegalovirus colitis, an inflammation caused by an infection, Mr Doyle was discharged four days later without them.

CMV inclusion (marked by "X") in a biopsy from a patient with severely active ulcerative colitis (H&E x 400).

Researchers say they found that infection with a common virus that can be transmitted from mother to fetus before birth significantly worsens an often-fatal complication of premature birth called ...