Nevirapine resistance and breast-milk HIV transmission: effects of single and extended-dose nevirapine prophylaxis in subtype C HIV-infected infants.

Nevirapine resistance and breast-milk HIV transmission: effects of single and extended-dose nevirapine prophylaxis in subtype C HIV-infected infants.

Daily nevirapine (NVP) prophylaxis to HIV-exposed infants significantly reduces breast-milk HIV transmission. We assessed NVP-resistance in Indian infants enrolled in the "six-week extended-dose nevirapine" (SWEN) trial who received single-dose NVP (SD-NVP) or SWEN for prevention of breast...

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Main Authors: Anitha Moorthy, Amita Gupta, Ramesh Bhosale, Srikanth Tripathy, Jayagowri Sastry, Smita Kulkarni, Madhuri Thakar, Renu Bharadwaj, Anju Kagal, Arvind V Bhore, Sandesh Patil, Vandana Kulkarni, Varadharajan Venkataramani, Usha Balasubramaniam, Nishi Suryavanshi, Carrie Ziemniak, Nikhil Gupte, Robert Bollinger, Deborah Persaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2606064?pdf=render

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