Article
Transmission from one child to another of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 with a zidovudine-resistance mutation.
The New England journal of medicine - 16 Dec 1993
Fitzgibbon J E, Gaur S, Frenkel L D, Laraque F, Edlin B R, Dubin D T
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND METHODS. We describe a child who apparently acquired human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in the home setting. The suspected source of infection was a child with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome who had received zidovudine and whose virus contained a mutation...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Child, Preschool
- DNA, Viral
- Drug Resistance
- HIV Infections
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Zidovudine