Vertical transmission of HIV in Ghanaian women diagnosed in cord blood and post-natal samples

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 351-359

  Fischetti, Lucia ^a   Danso, Kwabena ^b   Dompreh, Albert ^b   Addo, Victor ^b   Haaheim, Lars ^c   Allain, Jean Pierre ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d East Anglia Blood Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Ghana; HIV; Subtype; Vertical transmission; Viral load

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GHANA; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL LOAD;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 25844513524     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20463     Document Type: Article

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