Pediatrics

Study Provides Baseline Measurements of Viral Load in Pediatric AIDS

Published in Blood Weekly, May 26th, 1997

The amount of HIV in the blood of perinatally infected infants peaks at one to two months of age and then declines slowly to level off at 24 months at relatively high concentrations compared to those for an adult, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The study was reported in the May 8, 1997, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Peak viral loads at one month of age suggested that the majority of the infected infants were exposed around the time of delivery. A small number of infected infants had high blood levels of HIV at birth, indicating that some may have become infected in utero.

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Source: Blood Weekly (1997-05-26)

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