National PPTCT (Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission) of HIV drug protocol-urgent need for a change [1]

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 867-868

  Dinakar, Chitra ^a   Indumathi, C K ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHILDBIRTH; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATION PERIOD; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LABOR ONSET; LETTER; MONOTHERAPY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 36448988971     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

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