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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2015 Jul 31;29(12):1567–1573. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000740

Table 2.

Association between maternal superinfection (SI) and mother-to-child transmission of HIV via breastfeeding.

Unadjusted
Adjusted
Factors n/N OR (95% CI) p-value OR (95% CI) p-value
Superinfection 1.00 0.30
No (ref) 172/182 1 1
Yes 10/182 1.66 (0.52-5.27) 2.32 (0.47-11.47)
Maternal age 0.44 0.53
17-24 yrs (ref) 68/182 1 1
≥25 yrs 114/182 1.32 (0.73-2.42) 0.79 (0.37-1.66)
PEPI study arm 1.00
Control (ref) 56/182 1
Intervention 126/182 1.00 (0.51-1.97)
Baseline CD4 cell count 0.002 0.11
<250 cells/μl (ref) 49/172 1 1
≥250 cells/μl 123/172 0.33 (0.15-0.69) 0.50 (0.22-1.16)
Baseline log10 VL 0.001 0.004
<4 log10 copies (ref) 55/157 1 1
≥4 log10 copies 102/157 3.44 (1.64-7.43) 3.06 (1.44-6.54)

Abbreviations: N: total number of individuals; n: number of individuals with given trait; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence intervals; PEPI: Post-exposure Prophylaxis of Infants in Malawi trial; VL: viral load.