Retrospective study of HIV, hepatitis B, and HTLV-I infection at a London antenatal clinic

The Lancet

Volumn 335, Issue 8693, 1990, Pages 859-860

  Banatvala, J E ^a   Chrystie, I L ^a   Palmer, S J ^a   Kenney, A ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CONFIDENTIALITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMAN; LONDON; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0025306506     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(90)90977-D     Document Type: Letter

References (6)

1. Transmission of human immunodeficiency virus by heterosexual contact with reference to antenatal screening
2. Failure of voluntary testing for human immunodeficiency virus to identify infected parturient women in a high risk population
3. Anonymous testing of women attending antenatal clinics for evidence of infection with HIV
4. HTLV-1 infection: milk-borne infectin as the major transmission pathway for peculiar endemia
5. Prevention of HTLV-1 transmission through the breast milk by a freeze-thawing process
6. Screening for prolonged incubation of HTLV-I infection in British and Jamaican relatives of British patients with tropical spastic paraparesis