Pregnancy outcomes and mother-to-child transmission rate in HTLV-1/2 infected women attending two public hospitals in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro.

• Main Authors: Danielle Bittencourt Sodré Barmpas (Author), Denise Leite Maia Monteiro (Author), Stella Regina Taquette (Author), Nádia Cristina Pinheiro Rodrigues (Author), Alexandre José Baptista Trajano (Author), Juliana de Castro Cunha (Author), Camila Lattanzi Nunes (Author), Lucia Helena Cavalheiro Villela (Author), Sérgio A M Teixeira (Author), Denise Cardoso das Neves Sztajnbok (Author), Márcio Neves Bóia (Author)
• פורמט: ספר
• יצא לאור: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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HTLV-1/2 are transmitted sexually, by whole cell blood products and from mother-to-child (MTC), mainly through breastfeeding. HTLV-1/2 prevalence in pregnant women is high in Rio de Janeiro, however there were no local studies addressing the rate of adverse pregnancy outcomes (APO) and MTC transmiss...