If the baby is a girl, the doctor then takes a sample of amniotic fluid for testing for further matching with the father's genes.

Worse was to come when tests also confirmed a tear in the amniotic sac, which meant the waters were leaking.

Objective: To introduce a simple rapid exactive modified PCR for detection CMV DNA in amniotic fluid strand displacement amplification for prenatal diagnosis of congenital HCMV infections of fetus.