Estimating the time of HTLV-I infection following mother-to-child transmission in a breast-feeding population in Jamaica

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 541-546

  Furnia, Arthur ^a   Lal, Renu ^b   Maloney, Elizabeth ^c   Wiktor, Stefan ^c   Pate, Ernest ^d   Rudolph, Donna ^b   Waters, David ^e   Blattner, William ^c   Manns, Angela ^c,f  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^e SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^f Viral Epidemiology Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

HTLV I; Immunoglobulins; Infants; Polymerase chain reaction; Seroconversion; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFECTION RISK; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, VIRAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HTLV-I ANTIBODIES; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROVIRUSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032716176     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199912)59:4<541::AID-JMV19>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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