The association of early neonatal feeding on clinical outcomes and cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses in HIV exposed low birth weight infants.

BACKGROUND Sub-saharan Africa remains to date at the forefront of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Despite breastfeeding being a significant mode of postnatal HIV transmission it remains the main nutritional source and pillar of child survival for the majority of infants born in Africa. It is therefore, not s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dassaye, Reshmi.
Other Authors: Coutsoudis, Anna.
Language:en_ZA
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9654