Utility of clinical parameters to identify HIV infection in infants below ten weeks of age in South Africa: A prospective cohort study

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jaspan, Heather B ^a,b,c,h   Myer, Landon ^b,d   Madhi, Shabir A ^e   Violari, Avy ^e   Gibb, Diana M ^f   Stevens, Wendy S ^g   Dobbels, Els ^a   Cotton, Mark F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAPER DERMATITIS; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPLENOMEGALY; THRUSH; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BODY WEIGHT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 81355147104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-104     Document Type: Article

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