Seroprevalence of HIV, HTLV-I/II and other perinatally-transmitted pathogens in Salvador, Bahia Soroprevalência do HIV, HTLV-I/II e outros patógenos de transmissão perinatal em Salvador, Bahia

Seroprevalence of HIV, HTLV-I/II and other perinatally-transmitted pathogens in Salvador, Bahia Soroprevalência do HIV, HTLV-I/II e outros patógenos de transmissão perinatal em Salvador, Bahia

Generation of epidemiological data on perinatally-transmitted infections is a fundamental tool for the formulation of health policies. In Brazil, this information is scarce, particularly in Northeast, the poorest region of the country. In order to gain some insights of the problem we studied the ser...

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Main Authors: Jairo Ivo dos Santos, Maria Aparecida de Araújo Lopes, Elizabeth Deliège-Vasconcelos, José Carlos Couto-Fernandez, Balmukund Niljay Patel, Maurício Lima Barreto, Orlando C Ferreira Jr., Bernardo Galvão-Castro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 1995-08-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Subjects:
Pregnant women
Perinatally-transmitted pathogens
HIV
HTLV-I/II
Seroprevalence
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