Possible child-to-mother transmission of HIV by breastfeeding

JAMA

Volumn 294, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 2301-2302

  Visco Comandini, Ubaldo ^a   Longo, Benedetta ^a   Perinelli, Paola ^a   Liuzzi, Giuseppina ^a   Tozzi, Valerio ^a   Anzidei, Gianfranco ^a   Antinori, Andrea ^a   Ippolito, Giuseppe ^a   Girardi, Enrico ^a   Budabbus, Mohammed A ^b   Eljhawi, Osama A ^c   Mehabresh, Mahadi ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^b Embassy of the Popular Jamajria of Libya in Rome   (Italy)

^c El Fath Children's Hospital   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOASSAY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; INFANT;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT;

EID: 27744446725     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.294.18.2301     Document Type: Letter

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