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HIV infection in children

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Infection with HIV in children is usually by one of two routes:

  • about 80% are as a result of vertical transmission
  • the remaining 20% are from infected blood products; this group should decline with improved screening.

The former group tends to have a more virulent course of illness; the latter more closely resembles the adult infection.


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