Routinely available cotrimoxazole prophylaxis and occurrence of respiratory and diarrhoeal morbidity in infants born to HIV-infected mothers in South Africa

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 339-345

  Coutsoudis, Anna ^a   Pillay, Kubendran ^a   Spooner, Elizabeth ^a   Coovadia, Hoosen M ^a   Pembrey, Lucy ^b   Newell, Marie Louise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; PLACEBO; RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERINATAL INFECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; SOUTH AFRICA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BREAST FEEDING; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; VITAMIN A;

EID: 20044378102     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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