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Whole milk component of breast milk carries highest HIV load.
2003 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The whole milk component of breast milk carries the highest HIV load.
Scientists in the United States conducted a study "to determine which of the four components of breast milk (whole milk, skim milk, lipid layer, and breast-milk cells) had the highest sensitivity and concentration of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 RNA burden and to determine biological correlates to these factors."
"The probability of detection of HIV (sensitivity) and the concentration of HIV-1 RNA were both associated with the choice of milk component, CD4+ cell count, concentration of blood serum HIV-1 RNA, and the presence of breast inflammation," reported I.F. Hoffman and coauthors at the University of North Carolina. "Sensitivity was enhanced by analyzing all four components of breast milk."
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Source: HighBeam Research, Whole milk component of breast milk carries highest HIV load.