Article
HIV type 1 chemokine receptor usage in mother-to-child transmission.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Jul 2001
Salvatori F, Scarlatti G
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the role of the HIV-1 phenotype in mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission, we evaluated coreceptor usage and replication kinetics in chemokine receptor-expressing U87MG.CD4 cells of primary isolates from 32 HIV-1-infected mothers of Italian origin, none under preventive antiretroviral therapy, and from their infected infants. Five of 15 mothers of infected children and 2 of 17 mothers of uninfected...
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