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Viral Infections in Children and Hearing Loss: An Overview

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Hearing Loss in Congenital, Neonatal and Childhood Infections

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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].

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  1. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Türkiye

    Benhur Şirvan Çetin

  2. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Türkiye

    Emin Sami Arısoy

  3. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Gail J. Demmler-Harrison

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Çetin, B.Ş., Arısoy, E.S., Demmler-Harrison, G.J. (2023). Viral Infections in Children and Hearing Loss: An Overview. In: Arısoy, A.E., Arısoy, E.S., Bayar Muluk, N., Cingi, C., Correa, A.G. (eds) Hearing Loss in Congenital, Neonatal and Childhood Infections. Comprehensive ENT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38495-0_48

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