Declining Baseline Viremia and Escalating Discordant HIV-1 Confirmatory Results Within South Africa’s Early Infant Diagnosis Program, 2010–2016

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 212-216

  Mazanderani, Ahmad Haeri ^a,b   Moyo, Faith ^a,c   Kufa, Tendesayi ^a,d   Sherman, Gayle G ^a,c,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral; Detection; HIV; Infant; Viral load

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD; FEMALE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRAL LOAD; VIREMIA;

EID: 85048614849     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000001581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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