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Vertical HIV-1 transmission: importance of neutralizing antibody titer and specificity.
Scandinavian journal of immunology - 1 Mar 2001
Bongertz V, Costa C I, Veloso V G, Grinsztejn B, João Filho E C, Calvet G, Pilotto J H, Guimarães M L, Morgado M G
Abstract excerpt
Neutralization analyses were carried out with plasma from 132 volunteer human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infected women (76% pregnant, 24% with infants suspected for HIV-1 infection) collected between 1994 and 1998, against autologous and heterologous primary- and the reference HIV-1 MN isolates. A significantly lower percentage of HIV-1 transmissions was observed after 1996, parallel to a more intense...
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