Cosmetic tattooing: A potential transmission route for HIV?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 458-459

  Garland, Suzanne M ^a   Ung, Linh ^a   Vujovic, Olga V ^a   Said, Joanne M ^b  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; LAMIVUDINE PLUS ZIDOVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TATTOOING; VIET NAM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TATTOOING;

EID: 33748138858     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2006.00635.x     Document Type: Article

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