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JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS
Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages 75-81Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmp057
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HIV-exposed uninfected; infectious morbidity; immuneparesis; Pneumocystis jiroveci
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We describe the clinical and basic immunological findings of eight HIV-exposed uninfected infants hospitalized with serious infectious morbidity and referred for immunological evaluation. The median age at presentation was 5.5 (1.5-15) months. Infections included Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (three), cytomegalovirus colitis with perforation (one), Pseudomonas sepsis (two), hemorrhagic varicella (one) and Group A streptococcal meningitis and endocarditis (one). Five required intensive care, four for assisted ventilation and one for post-surgical care. Follow-up to 36 months suggested resolution of a transient immunodeficiency in two infants, one of whom had CD4 and the other B-cell depletion. Further studies are indicated in HIV-exposed uninfected infants.
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