Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS in a region of Southern Brazil where the subtype C of HIV-1 infection predominates

Southern Brazil has the highest prevalence rate of AIDS in the country and is the only region in the Americas where HIV-1 subtype C prevails. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS in the South region of Santa Catarina, Brazil. M...

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Main Authors: Sandra Aparecida Manenti, João Galato Júnior, Elizângela da Silva Silveira, Roberto Teixeira Oenning, Priscyla Waleska Targino de Azevedo Simões, Jeverson Moreira, Celine Maria Fochesato, Luís Fernando de Macedo Brígido, Rosângela Rodrigues, Pedro Roosevelt Torres Romão
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702011000400008&lng=en&tlng=en