| Literature DB >> 7535353 |
H H Lin1, J H Kao, H Y Hsu, Y H Ni, M H Chang, S C Huang, L H Hwang, P J Chen, D S Chen.
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The role of breast-feeding in perinatal transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) was explored in 15 HCV-infected mothers and their infants. The 15 carrier mothers had anti-HCV titers ranging from 1:80 to 1:40,000 and also had HCV-ribonucleic acid with concentrations ranging from 10(4) to 2.5 x 10(8) copies/ml. Both anti-HCV antibody and HCV-ribonucleic acid were present in colostral samples in much lower levels, but none of the 11 breast-fed infants had evidence of HCV infection for up to 1 year of age. Thus breast-feeding seems safe for these infants.Entities:
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Year: 1995 PMID： 7535353 DOI： 10.1016/s0022-3476(95)70356-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pediatr ISSN： 0022-3476 Impact factor: 4.406