Pokrovsky VV, Eramova EU; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1989 Jun 4-9; 5: 63 (abstract no. W.A.O.5).
Central Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, USSR
A total of 41 out of 2504 children and 8 of 115 mothers of children who had been admitted to hospital in Elista Town (Kalmykia Republic, USSR) during the period from May until December 1988 were found HIV antibody positive by ELISA and Western Blot testing. No other HIV infection was identified among 20,000 inhabitants of Elista including 948 hospital workers and 1032 members of families of infected persons. Only 1 of 9 sexual partners of the 8 infected women was HIV positive. This man lived and was possibly infected in Africa in 1981. A child of his HIV seropositive wife died in hospital in May 1988 and is thought to have been the first infant in a chain of HIV infection. Other seropositive children are assumed to have been infected during overlapping admissions to the hospital. The virus appears to have been transmitted in hospital by use of one syringe into which blood was aspirated between intravenous injections. Four mothers for whom no risk factors were identified appear to have become HIV infected through blood of their children. It is hypothesized that the virus was transmitted from bleeding oral lesions in children treated with heavy doses of antibiotic to bleeding fissures on mothers breasts during breast feeding. Results of the final analysis of the investigation will be reported.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Africa
- Breast Feeding
- Child
- Disease Outbreaks
- Female
- HIV
- HIV Antibodies
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seronegativity
- HIV Seropositivity
- HIV Seroprevalence
- Hospitals
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Research
- Risk Factors
- USSR
- Virus Diseases
- immunology
Other ID:
UI: 102175990
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