Gender differences in perinatal HIV acquisition among African infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Taha, Taha E ^a   Nour, Samah ^a   Kumwenda, Newton I ^a   Broadhead, Robin L ^b   Fiscus, Susan A ^c   Kafulafula, George ^b   Nkhoma, Chiwawa ^b   Chen, Shu ^a   Hoover, Donald R ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Africa; Gender; HIV; Mother to child transmission; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERINATAL INFECTION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS LOAD; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALAWI; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; VIROLOGY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALAWI; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 17844405335     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-1590     Document Type: Article

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