Placental malaria and perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
Date
2003-12Author
Inion, I
Mwanyumba, F
Gaillard, P
Chohan, V
Verhofstede, C
Claeys, P
Mandaliya, K
Van, Marck E
Temmerman, M
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Prevalence of placental malaria in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1-infected and -uninfected women and the effect of placental malaria on genital shedding and perinatal transmission of HIV-1 were examined. Genital samples for HIV-1 DNA RNA were collected during labor. Infants were tested for HIV-1 at 1 day and 6 weeks postpartum. Placental malaria was diagnosed by histopathological examination: 372 placentas of HIV-1-infected women and 277 of HIV-1-uninfected women were processed. A higher prevalence of placental malaria was seen in HIV-1-infected women. No association was found between placental malaria and either maternal virus load, genital HIV-1 DNA, or HIV-1 RNA. Placental malaria did not correlate with in utero or peripartal transmission of HIV-1.
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http://hinari-gw.who.int/whalecomwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/pubmed/14639538http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/40618
Citation
J Infect Dis. 2003 Dec 1;188(11):1675-8.Publisher
University of Nairobi. College of Health Sciences
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]