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HIV Infection and AIDS

Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
None; however, the disease may be passed from mother to child by means of vertical transmission.

Prenatal diagnosis
No prenatal diagnostic tests are available although women are now actively encouraged to have an HIV test in pregnancy. Post-natal tests are available for babies born to HIV positive women.

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Medical text written November 1995 by Dr J Evans, Paediatric HIV Team, St Mary's Hospital, London UK. Last reviewed December 2004 by Dr M Sharland, Consultant Paediatrician in Paediatric Infectious diseases and HIV, St George's Hospital, London, UK.

 

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