The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2005;192:709–712
© 2005 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
0022-1899/2005/19205-0001$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/432490
EDITORIAL COMMENTARY
Combination Antiretroviral Therapy in African Nursing Mothers and Drug Exposure in Their Infants: New Pharmacokinetic and Virologic Findings
Marc Bulterys,1,5
Paul J. Weidle,2
Elaine J. Abrams,3,4 and
Mary Glenn Fowler2
1Global AIDS Program and 2Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Surveillance and Epidemiology, National Center for HIV, Sexually Transmitted Disease, and Tuberculosis Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; 3Department of Pediatrics, Harlem Hospital Center, and 4Mother to Child Transmission–Plus Initiative, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York; 5Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
Received 24 May 2005; accepted 24 May 2005; electronically published 27 July 2005.
Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Marc Bulterys, Director, CDC Global AIDS Program, Zambia, American Embassy, Independence Avenue, PO Box 31617, Lusaka, Zambia (
bulterysm@cdczm.org).
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