From the *Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University; †HIV-NAT/Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre; and ‡Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Accepted for publication May 29, 2013.
Results from this study were presented in part at the 9th International Congress of Tropical Pediatrics, Bangkok, Thailand, October 18–20, 2011.
Funding support was provided through a grant to amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, as part of the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (U01AI069907), by the U.S. National Institutes of Health: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development and National Cancer Institute, with additional funding from the AIDS Life Association. T.P. is funded in part by the National Research University Project of Commission of Higher Education and the Ratchadapiseksomphot Endowment Fund (HR 1161A-55) and the Senior Researcher Scholar, Thai Research Fund. The content of this publication is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of any of the institutions mentioned above. The authors have no other funding or conflicts of interest to disclose.
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Address for correspondence: Thanyawee Puthanakit, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 10330. E-mail: [email protected].
