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HIV prevalence and risk factors in infants born to HIV positive mothers, measured by dried blood spot real-time PCR assay in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Infants infected during pregnancy or while breastfeeding requires early HIV diagnosis at 6 weeks after birth to identify HIV infection and timely treatment. The objective of this work was to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of HIV among HIV exposed infants in the Tigr...

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Autores principales: Desta, Mulu Lemlem, Saravanan, Muthupandian, Hilekiros, Haftamu, Kahsay, Atsebaha Gebrekidan, Mohamed, Nesredin Futwi, Gezahegn, Alefech Addisu, Lopes, Bruno S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6659294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31349803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1636-y