Human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B virus infection in pregnancy: Diagnostic potential of viral genome detection

Intervirology

Volumn 41, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 201-207

  Berger, Annemarie ^a   Doerr, Hans W ^a   Weber, Bernard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Laboratoire Réunis Kutter Lieners et Hastert   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Hepatitis B virus; Human immunodeficiency virus; Pregnancy; Viral load

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA; ZIDOVUDINE;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; VIRAL LOAD;

DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 0032448322     PISSN: 03005526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000024937     Document Type: Review

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