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- Title
Absence of Infection in a Neonate after Possible Exposure to Sin Nombre Hanta virus in Breast Milk.
- Authors
Pai, Reetesh K.; Bharadwaj, Mausumi; Levy, Howard; Overturf, Gary; Goade, Diane; Wortman, Ivo A.; Nofchissey, Robert; Hjelle, Brian
- Abstract
Reports on the absence of infection in a neonate after possible exposure to Sin Nombre (SN) hantavirus in breast milk. Results of reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis of breast milk and blood samples from a mother with SN virus infection and of blood samples for her infant; Role of local neutralizing antibodies in preventing viral transmission to the infant through the breast milk.
- Subjects
NEONATAL infections; HANTAVIRUS diseases; CONTAMINATION of human milk
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1999, Vol 29, Issue 6, p1577
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/313523