Table 4.
Oropharyngeal colonization of infants attending the 3-month visit, by HIV and feeding status
| Infant HIV status | Randomized feeding strategy |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organism | Total n = 561 (%) |
HIV-infected n = 49 (%) |
HIV-uninfected n = 512 (%) |
BF≥ZDV n = 287 (%) |
FF≥ZDV n = 274 (%) |
| Gram-negative bacteria: | 65 (11.3) | 9 (18.4) | 56 (10.9) | 19 (6.2) | 46 (16.8) |
| Klebsiella spp | 36 (6.4) | 5 (10.2) | 31 (6.1) | 8 (2.8) | 28 (10.2) |
| H. influenza not type B | 13 (2.3) | 1 (2.0) | 12 (2.3) | 8 (2.8) | 5 (1.8) |
| E. coli | 9 (1.6) | 1 (2.0) | 8 (1.6) | 1 (0.3) | 8 (2.9) |
| Enterobacter spp. | 4 (0.7) | 2 (4.1) | 2 (0.4) | 1 (0.3) | 3 (1.1) |
| H. influenza (non-typeable) | 2 (0.4) | 0 | 2 (0.4) | 1 (0.3) | 1 (0.4) |
| Pseudomonas (non-aeruginosa) | 1 (0.2) | 0 | 1 (0.2) | 0 | 1 (0.4) |
| Gram-positive bacteria: | 67 (11.6) | 8 (16.3) | 59 (11.5) | 36 (12.5) | 31 (11.3) |
| Strep., Group A | 38 (6.8) | 3 (6.1) | 35 (6.8) | 20 (7.0) | 18 (6.6) |
| S. aureus | 10 (1.8) | 2 (4.1) | 8 (1.6) | 6 (2.1) | 4 (1.5) |
| Strep., non-Group A, B or D | 10 (1.8) | 1 (2.0) | 9 (1.8) | 4 (1.4) | 6 (2.2) |
| Strep. pneumoniae | 5 (0.9) | 2 (4.1) | 3 (0.6) | 3 (1.0) | 2 (0.7) |
| Strep., Group B | 3 (0.5) | 0 | 3 (0.6) | 2 (0.7) | 1 (0.4) |
| Strep., Group D | 1 (0.2) | 0 | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.3) | 0 |
| Yeast/fungi | 30 (5.2) | 3 (6.1) | 27 (5.3) | 19 (6.2) | 11 (4.0) |
| Candida spp. | 29 (5.2)) | 3 (6.1) | 26 (5.1) | 19 (6.6) | 10 (3.6) |
| Other fungal | 1 (0.2 | 0 | 1 (0.2) | 0 | 1 (0.4) |
| No pathogen | 414 (73.8) | 32 (65.3) | 382 (74.6) | 220 (76.7) | 194 (70.8) |