Primary HIV-1 infection during pregnancy: high rate of HIV-1 MTCT in a cohort of patients in southern Brazil

Karin Nielsen-Saines¹, Marineide Melo², Ivana Varella², Rosana Fonseca², Rita Lira², Maria Lourdes Turella², Ivete Canti², Claudio Campello², Ana Maria Moreira² and Breno Riegel Santos²

¹Department of Pediatrics/ Infectious Diseases, David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

²Department of Infectious Diseases. Grupo Hospitalar Conceiçao, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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from Fourth Dominique Dormont International Conference. Host-Pathogen Interactions in Chronic Infections
Paris, France. 13-15 December 2007

Retrovirology 2008, 5(Suppl 1):O1doi:10.1186/1742-4690-5-S1-O1


Published:	9 April 2008

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Mother to Child HIV-1 Transmission (MTCT) is infrequent among women who receive highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) throughout pregnancy [1]. Women who undergo primary HIV-1 infection during pregnancy, however are at high risk of perinatal transmission [2].