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Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases 3/2014

Open Access 01-05-2014 | ePoster presentation

Early infant diagnosis: gateway to survival for HIV positive infants

Authors: Jayanthi Shastri, Sachee Agrawal, Sandhya Sawant, Manish Pathak

Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases | Special Issue 3/2014

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Under PPTCT, babies born to sero-positive mothers were followed up and tested at 18 months of age. Under Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) program, HIV exposed babies are subjected to HIV-1 DNA PCR on DBS and whole blood as early as 6 weeks of age followed by initiation of ART. …
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Title
Early infant diagnosis: gateway to survival for HIV positive infants
Authors
Jayanthi Shastri
Sachee Agrawal
Sandhya Sawant
Manish Pathak
Publication date
01-05-2014
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases / Issue Special Issue 3/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2334
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-S3-E13

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