Maternal HIV infection and vertical transmission of pathogenic bacteria

Pediatrics

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Cutland, Clare L ^a   Schrag, Stephanie J ^b   Zell, Elizabeth R ^b   Kuwanda, Locadiah ^a   Buchmann, Eckhardt ^c   Velaphi, Sithembiso C ^c   Groome, Michelle J ^a   Adrian, Peter V ^a   Madhi, Shabir A ^a,d   Temmerman, Marleen ^e   Hofmeyr, G Justus ^e   Miotti, Paolo ^e   Pattinson, Robert ^e   Saloojee, Haroon ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Group B streptococcus (GBS); HIV; Newborns; Pneumonia; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; LAMIVUDINE PLUS NEVIRAPINE PLUS STAVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DISEASE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEPSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 84865725727     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-1548     Document Type: Article

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