Research Centre: Aquatic and Crop Resource Development, Automotive and Surface Transportation, Design and Fabrication Services, Human Health Therapeutics, Industrial Research Assistance Program, Medical Devices
As the leading cause of birth defects, cytomegalovirus (CMV) affects more children than Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Down Syndrome and infects up to 90 percent of adults worldwide. Typically unnoticed in healthy people, CMV can be life-threatening for the immunocompromised, which includes persons infected with HIV, organ transplant recipients and most commonly, newborn infants.