. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 25.

Published in final edited form as: J Infect Dis. 2003 Feb 12;187(5):736–740. doi: 10.1086/374272

Table 2. Breast-milk infectivity, by maternal disease and immune status.

	Breast-milk infectivity
	Maternal HIV-1 RNA plasma virus load			Maternal CD4 cell count
Measure of breast- milk infectivity	≥43,120 copies/mL (n = 160)	<43,120 copies/mL (n = 160)	p	<400 × 10⁶/L (n = 174)	≥400 × 10⁶/L (n =160)	p
Per liter ingested	.00104 (.00044– .00171)	.00025 (.00005– .00055)	.01	.00095 (.00045– .00156)	.00036 (.00008– .00067)	.06
Per day of exposure	.00044 (.00019– .00075)	.00011 (.00003– .00025)	.01	.00043 (.00020– .00074)	.00015 (.00003– .00030)	.04

NOTE. Data are median (9507o confidence interval).