Paediatric HIV infection.
By the year 2000 there will be six million pregnant women and five to ten million children infected with HIV-1. Intervention strategies have been planned and in some instances already started. A timely and cost-effective strategy needs to take into account that most HIV-1 infected individuals reside in developing countries. Further studies are needed on immunological and virological factors affecting HIV-1 transmission from mother to child, on differential disease progression in affected children, and on transient infection.
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Laboratory of Immunobiology, Centro San Luigi, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D011247:Pregnancy