Early detection of active Human CytomegaloVirus (hCMV) infection in pregnant women using data generated for noninvasive fetal aneuploidy testing.

"after aligning the nonhuman reads to the viral reference genome and masking low-complexity regions using repeatmasker ( https://github com/rmhubley/repeatmasker ) or the dust algorithm (as implemented in the meme-suite20 (version 5 3) with default settings to mask regions of low-complexity sequence) only paired reads derived from the same viral fragment were included in the downstream analysis."

"Declaration of interests EAS declares to have received a grant for research with focus on the heel prick. He is a board member of the Dutch Society for Laboratory specialists clinical genetics and of the Genomics Quality Assessment consortium (GenQA), and received support for attending conferences from the latter. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest."

"10.13039/501100020258Department of Medical Microbiology; Radboud university medical center Nijmegen"