Human breast milk: is it the best milk to prevent HIV transmission?

A significant proportion of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV still occurs during breastfeeding in settings where replacement feeding is unsafe and impractical. However, very few babies born to HIV-infected women and breastfed during the first 6 months of life become infected postnatally. T...

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Autor principal: Palma, Paolo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mediscript Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4965242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27482446
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description A significant proportion of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV still occurs during breastfeeding in settings where replacement feeding is unsafe and impractical. However, very few babies born to HIV-infected women and breastfed during the first 6 months of life become infected postnatally. The fact that the majority of babies who are breastfed by HIV-infected mothers remain uninfected even after several months of breastfeeding constitutes one of the major enigmas of HIV transmission via breast milk.
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spelling pubmed-49652422016-08-01 Human breast milk: is it the best milk to prevent HIV transmission? Palma, Paolo J Virus Erad Viewpoint A significant proportion of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV still occurs during breastfeeding in settings where replacement feeding is unsafe and impractical. However, very few babies born to HIV-infected women and breastfed during the first 6 months of life become infected postnatally. The fact that the majority of babies who are breastfed by HIV-infected mothers remain uninfected even after several months of breastfeeding constitutes one of the major enigmas of HIV transmission via breast milk. Mediscript Ltd 2016-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4965242/ /pubmed/27482446 Text en © 2016 The Author. Journal of Virus Eradication published by Mediscript Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article published under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
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title_short Human breast milk: is it the best milk to prevent HIV transmission?
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