Risk Factors for Measles in HIV-infected Children and Adolescents in Botswana.

Kathleen E Wirth Elizabeth R Wolf David M Goldfarb Ari Ho-Foster Michael Tolle Christina Jacovides Brianna Kirk Mamiki Chise Andrew P Steenhoff

Pediatr Infect Dis J

From the *Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; †Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Health, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana; ‡Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; §Botswana-UPenn Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana; ¶Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; ‖University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; **Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence, Gaborone, Botswana; ††Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas; and ‡‡Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Published: October 2015

We conducted a matched case-control study of 566 HIV-infected children in Botswana during a 2009-2010 measles outbreak to identify the risk factors for measles. Children in the oldest age quartile (≥13.1 years) were 4-fold more likely to acquire measles than those in the youngest quartile (<7.1 years). HIV-infected older children and adolescents may benefit from additional measles vaccination.

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