The Use of Viral Culture and p24 Antigen Testing to Diagnose Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Neonates
THE number of women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is on the increase worldwide, mainly as a result of heterosexual transmission and intravenous drug abuse, and the majority of infected women are of childbearing age. The World Health Organization estimates that by the year 2000...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The New England journal of medicine 1992-10, Vol.327 (17), p.1192-1197 |
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Zusammenfassung: | THE number of women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is on the increase worldwide, mainly as a result of heterosexual transmission and intravenous drug abuse, and the majority of infected women are of childbearing age. The World Health Organization estimates that by the year 2000, 10 million infants will have been infected, making the prevention and treatment of pediatric HIV disease a major public health challenge.
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Serologic methods, including the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and the Western blot assay, are used for the diagnosis of HIV infection in infants over the age of 18 months, but they are . . . |
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ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJM199210223271702 |