Elevations in mortality associated with weaning persist into the second year of life among uninfected children born to HIV-infected mothers

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 437-444

  Kuhn, Louise ^a,b   Sinkala, Moses ^e   Semrau, Katherine ^c   Kankasa, Chipepo ^f   Kasonde, Prisca ^f   Mwiya, Mwiya ^f   Hu, Chih Chi ^b   Tsai, Wei Yann ^e   Thea, Donald M ^c   Aldrovandi, Grace M ^d  

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

^b Boston University ^*  (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^f UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEANING; ZAMBIA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTHERS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WEANING; ZAMBIA;

EID: 75749139299     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649886     Document Type: Article

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