The placental barrier to maternal HIV infection.
Infection with HIV destroys the immune system and causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Death results from common bacterial and opportunistic infections that are rare in persons with a healthy immune system. HIV infection frequently is a fatal sexually transmitted disease that can also be transmitted from an infected mother to her offspring.
Anderson
V M
VM
Department of Pathology, State University of New York, Brooklyn, USA.
D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections; D019380:Anti-HIV Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / Q000517:prevention & control; D010920:Placenta / Q000187:drug effects / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D015215:Zidovudine / Q000494:pharmacology
D019380:Anti-HIV Agents; D015215:Zidovudine