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Transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) from mother to child correlates with viral phenotype.
Virology - 1 Dec 1993
Scarlatti G, Hodara V, Rossi P, Muggiasca L, Bucceri A, Albert J, Fenyö E M
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to investigate if the risk of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is influenced by the biological phenotype of the mother's virus. Virus isolates from 30 HIV-1 infected mothers and 12 infected children born to these mothers were analyzed for replication on several cell lines (Jurkat-tat, Jurkat, CEM, U937 clone 2, and MT-2). We show that mothers...
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