| Autor: |
P, Lepage, F, Dabis, D G, Hitimana, P, Msellati, C, Van Goethem, A M, Stevens, F, Nsengumuremyi, A, Bazubagira, A, Serufilira, A, De Clercq |
| Rok vydání: |
1991 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
AIDS (London, England). 5(3) |
| ISSN: |
0269-9370 |
| Popis: |
We present the baseline results of a prospective cohort study on the perinatal transmission of HIV-1 in Kigali, Rwanda. HIV-1-antibody testing was offered to all women of urban origin delivering a live newborn at the maternity ward of the Centre Hospitalier de Kigali from November 1988 to June 1989; 218 newborns of 215 HIV-positive mothers were matched to 218 newborns of 216 HIV-negative mothers. The matching criteria were maternal age and parity. No differences in socioeconomic characteristics were observed between HIV-positive and HIV-negative women. HIV-positive mothers more frequently reported a history of at least one death of a previously born child (P less than 0.01) and a history of abortion (P less than 0.001). Most of the HIV-positive women were asymptomatic, but 72.4% of them had a CD4; CD8 ratio less than 1 versus 10.1% in the HIV-negative group (P less than 0.001). The frequency of signs and symptoms was not statistically different in the two groups, except for a history of herpes zoster or chronic cough, which was more frequent among HIV-positive women. The rates of prematurity, low birth weight, congenital malformations and neonatal mortality were comparable in the two groups. However, infants of HIV-positive mothers had a mean birth weight 130 g lower than the infants of HIV-negative mothers (P less than 0.01). The impact of maternal HIV-1 infection on the infant seems limited during the neonatal period. |
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