Increased Risk for and Mortality From Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in HIV-Exposed but Uninfected Infants Aged &lt;1 Year in South Africa, 2009–2013

von Mollendorf, Claire; von Gottberg, Anne; Tempia, Stefano; Meiring, Susan; de Gouveia, Linda; Quan, Vanessa; Lengana, Sarona; Avenant, Theunis; du Plessis, Nicolette; Eley, Brian; Finlayson, Heather; Reubenson, Gary; Moshe, Mamokgethi; L. O’Brien, Katherine; P. Klugman, Keith; G. Whitney, Cynthia; Cohen, Cheryl

doi:10.1093/cid/civ059

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Increased Risk for and Mortality From Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in HIV-Exposed but Uninfected Infants Aged <1 Year in South Africa, 2009–2013

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases • Feb 2, 2015

Authors:

Claire von Mollendorf

Anne von Gottberg

Stefano Tempia

Abstract

BACKGROUND: High antenatal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroprevalence rates (∼ 30%) with low perinatal HIV transmission rates (2.5%), due to HIV prevention of mother-to-child transmission program improvements in South Africa, has resulted in increasing numbers of HIV-exposed but uninfected (H...

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Medicine

Case fatality rate

Population

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