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Adherence of human immunodeficiency virus-infected lymphocytes to fetal placental cells: a model of maternal --> fetal transmission.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Feb 1995
Schwartz D H, Sharma U K, Perlman E J, Blakemore K
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The precise timing and mechanism of in utero human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are unknown, but transplacental transmission is likely. Term placentas from HIV+ pregnancies contain only rare HIV-infected cells whose origins and phenotypes remain controversial, and no correlation has been found between the presence of HIV in term placentas and transmission to offspring. Reports of trophoblast...
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