Reduction of maternal mortality with highly active antiretroviral therapy in a large cohort of HIV-infected pregnant women in Malawi and Mozambique.

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Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Liotta, Giuseppe ^a   Mancinelli, Sandro ^b   Nielsen Saines, Karin ^b   Gennaro, Elisabetta ^b   Scarcella, Paola ^b   Magid, Nurja Abdul ^b   Germano, Paola ^b   Jere, Haswell ^b   Guidotti, Giovanni ^b   Buonomo, Ersilia ^b   Ciccacci, Fausto ^b   Palombi, Leonardo ^b   Marazzi, Maria Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALAWI; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; MOZAMBIQUE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALAWI; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MOZAMBIQUE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899034267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071653     Document Type: Article

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