Association between maternal and infant class I and II HLA alleles and of their concordance with the risk of perinatal HIV type 1 transmission.

We aimed to investigate the influence of class I and class II HLA specificities and of the concordance between maternal and infant HLA on vertical HIV-1 transmission. HLA typing of samples from mothers and infants enrolled in the Ariel study, a perinatal HIV-1 transmission cohort including 203 mothe...

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Main Authors: Polycarpou, A, Ntais, C, Korber, B, Elrich, H, Winchester, R, Krogstad, P, Wolinsky, S, Rostron, T, Rowland-Jones, S, Ammann, A, Ioannidis, J
Format: Conference item
Published: 2002