HIV infection and pregnancy: diagnostic and follow-up program for the pregnant woman and newborn child.
The authors take as their starting point the cases of 8 pregnancies in HIV serologically positive women, admitted for their observation from July 1986 to March 1988. They emphasize the importance of clinical, anamnestic and serological screening in order to identify those subjects at risk, and thereby prevent the vertical transmission of the virus. To this end, they propose a protocol to be used for all women at risk, both pregnant and not, both seropositive and seronegative. They also advise repeated clinical and immunological checks of the children of asymptomatic carrier mothers.
Baldoni
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Perugia, Italy.
Mencaglia
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Gentili
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AM
Giannone
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E
Gilardi
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G
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