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- <text id=93TT2513>
- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Hidden AIDS
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Hidden AIDS
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A new test may help doctors uncover cases of infection in babies
- </p>
- <p> Pregnant women who harbor the AIDS virus have a 30% chance of
- passing the infection on to their unborn children. But
- conventional tests, which detect the presence of antibodies to
- the virus, cannot determine which babies are infected and thus
- need immediate treatment. The ambiguity occurs because the
- mother's own antibodies cross the placenta, causing the newborn
- to test positive even if it is not infected.
- </p>
- <p> Now scientists at UCLA believe they have found a solution.
- In their study, published in the New England Journal of
- Medicine, they used a new test that separates the maternal
- antibodies from infant blood samples. No longer camouflaged, the
- AIDS virus was easy to detect.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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