Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in infants and children: report of nine cases

Rosner, F.; Forgel, M.; Telsey, A.; Citerman, S.; Charytan, M.; Rubinstein, A.

Biomedicine and PharmacoTherapy 39(7): 350-355

1985


ISSN/ISBN: 0753-3322
PMID: 3830264
Document Number: 419646
The authors report the case histories of 9 children with AIDS seen in a New York hospital. Risk factors were blood transfusions (4), maternal intravenous drug abuse (3), haemophilia (1) and paternal AIDS (1); one baby was also of Haitian parentage. None was lymphopenic but all had reversed T4/T8 ratios. There was a high prevalence of recurrent bacterial infections and sepsis.D.W. FitzSimons.

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