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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Çetin, Benhur Şirvan
• Arısoy, Emin Sami
• Demmler-Harrison, Gail J.

Titel

Viral Infections in Children and Hearing Loss: An Overview

Ist Teil von

• Hearing Loss in Congenital, Neonatal and Childhood Infections, p.779-790

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• An estimated 1.3 billion individuals worldwide have some hearing loss (HL) [1]. By 2050, over 2.5 billion people—or one in every four people—will have some degree of HL, according to the first World report on HL of the World Health Organization (WHO) [2]. Hearing loss is a common disability among children. In the United States of America (USA), 1.1–1.7/1000 neonates are born with bilateral HL ranging from severe to profound, and 1–2/1000 are born with mild to moderate unilateral or bilateral HL [3, 4]. Improved maternal and neonatal care, immunization, and screening for and early management of the middle ear’s inflammatory illnesses can prevent about 60% of HL in children [2].