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Methods: A retrospective single-center cohort study was conducted on 66 infants with congenital CMV infection in order to identify among clinical presentation at birth potential predictors of the absence of neurodevelopmental sequelae at 12 months of age. A logistic regression model was built in order to identify a correlation between potential predictors and neurodevelopmental status at one year of age in the cohort in the study. Results: The results of our study showed a significant correlation between normal neutrophil count and normal audiological assessment at birth in a logistic regression model (p &lt; 0.05) in patients with cCMV with the absence of neurodevelopmental sequelae at M12. Our findings also underlined that normal platelet count and normal cerebral imaging are connected with normal neurodevelopment at one year of age, though not in a statistically significant way. 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