title: [Differences in the susceptibility to HIV infection in children as a function of sex and ethnicity].
abstract: The study was conducted on 114 children (87 Romanians and 27 Turks) from an orphanage in Romania, where an AIDS outbreak was recorded due to parenteral contamination through blood transfusion or injection. The average age of the 53.5% seropositive children was of 27.63 +/- 7.88 months, versus 37.03 +/- 10.01 months in seronegative ones. The seropositivity rate was higher in Romanian children and among girls. The antibody profile in Western Blot showed that gag and pol genes specified stripes were less frequent in Turkish children.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Virologie Stefan S. Nicolau, Bucarest, Roumanie.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cernescu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cernescu
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004198:Disease Susceptibility / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000276:immunology; D015483:HIV Antibodies / Q000097:blood; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000276:immunology; D015528:HIV Seroprevalence; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology
chemical_list: D015483:HIV Antibodies
vernacular_title: Différences de susceptibilité envers l'infection à HIV chez l'enfant en fonction du sexe et de l'ethnie.