## Abstract Eight women with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection during pregnancy gave birth to 11 children. Five of these children had elevated ALT, but only two had increased levels in more than one sample. All children tested before 6 months of age were positive for anti‐HCV at most up to
HIV—Infected Mothers Pass Virus to Infants Via Breastfeeding
✍ Scribed by Cockey, Carolyn Davis
- Book ID
- 109266394
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-5923
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Seventy-five women with anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody were enrolled prospectively during pregnancy or at delivery for study of motherto-child transmission of HCV. Twenty-three women were coinfected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Seventy babies were monitored for at least 6 mont
## Abstract To demonstrate vertical transmission of hepatitis C virus from an HCV infected woman and to assess the evolution of HCV quasispecies in the infant, the variable E2 region was analyzed in one mother‐infant pair at birth and in serial samples from the infected baby. Sequence analysis of t