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. 2012 Dec;58(6):505-8.
doi: 10.1093/tropej/fms019. Epub 2012 May 3.

HIV-exposed uninfected infants are at increased risk for severe infections in the first year of life

Amy Slogrove  1 , Brian Reikie, Shalena Naidoo, Corena De Beer, Kevin Ho, Mark Cotton, Julie Bettinger, David Speert, Monika Esser, Tobias Kollmann
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HIV-exposed uninfected infants are at increased risk for severe infections in the first year of life

Amy Slogrove et al. J Trop Pediatr. 2012 Dec.

Abstract

HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) infants have higher infectious morbidity than HIV-unexposed uninfected (HUU) infants. We present the clinical outcomes from a pilot cohort study of 27 HEU and 28 HUU infants. In the absence of infant malnutrition or advanced maternal HIV, HEU infants experienced a 2.74 (0.85-8.78) times greater risk of hospitalization in the first year.

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