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. 1989 May;80(5):405-7.
doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1989.tb02327.x.

Effect of freeze-thawing breast milk on vertical HTLV-I transmission from seropositive mothers to children

Y Ando  1 , K Kakimoto, T Tanigawa, K Furuki, K Saito, S Nakano, H Hashimoto, I Moriyama, M Ichijo, T Toyama
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Effect of freeze-thawing breast milk on vertical HTLV-I transmission from seropositive mothers to children

Y Ando et al. Jpn J Cancer Res. 1989 May.

Abstract

Breast feeding is known to be a major cause of vertical transmission of HTLV-I from mothers to her children. The infectiousness of HTLV-I in breast milk was reported to be lost during freezing and thawing processes. We therefore administered frozen-and-thawed breast milk of HTLV-I carriers to their babies. Among the 13 babies given the frozen-and-thawed breast milk (now 12 months of age), no infection has been found yet. This result suggests that freezing and thawing of breast milk is a promising method for the prevention of vertical HTLV-I infection to breast-fed babies.

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