BCG Vaccination and Mother-to-Infant Transmission of HIV

Sindhuja Murali Kilapandal Venkatraman; Ranjit Sivanandham; Ivona Pandrea; Cristian Apetrei

doi:10.1093/infdis/jiz385

BCG Vaccination and Mother-to-Infant Transmission of HIV

J Infect Dis. 2020 Jun 16;222(1):1-3. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiz385.

Authors

Sindhuja Murali Kilapandal Venkatraman^{1

2}, Ranjit Sivanandham^{1

2}, Ivona Pandrea¹, Cristian Apetrei²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

No abstract available

Keywords: BCG; HIV; IRIS; SIV; bacillus Calmette-Guérin; breastfeeding; immune activation; mother-to-infant transmission; nonhuman primate; tuberculosis; vaccine.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
BCG Vaccine
Female
HIV Infections* / prevention & control
Humans
Macaca mulatta
Mothers
Simian Immunodeficiency Virus*
Vaccination

Substances

BCG Vaccine

Publication types

MeSH terms

Substances

Grants and funding