Mother-to-child transmission risk is increased among HIV-infected pregnant women in Ukraine with serological test results positive for syphilis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1114-1115

  Thorne, Claire ^a   Malyuta, Ruslan ^b   Semenenko, Igor ^b   Pilipenko, Tatyana ^b   Stelmah, Andrej ^d   Posokhova, Svetlana ^c   Newell, Marie Louise ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Perinatal Prevention of AIDS Initiative Odessa   (Ukraine)

^c Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (Ukraine)

^d AIDS Centre of Crimea   (Ukraine)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; UKRAINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; UKRAINE;

EID: 53349174053     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592124     Document Type: Letter

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