Bystander effects: Children who escape infection but not harm

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 517-518

  Kuhn, Louise ^a,d   Thea, Donald M ^b   Aldrovandi, Grace M ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

BYSTANDER EFFECT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MORTALITY; MOTHER; NOTE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RISK FACTOR; VIRUS LOAD;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 36549021683     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e31814d6600     Document Type: Note

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