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Brief but Efficient: Acute HIV Infection and the Sexual Transmission of HIV
The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2004 · Vol. 189(10) · pp. 1785–1792
Christopher D. Pilcher✉(University of St. Gallen)Hsiao Chuan Tien(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)Joseph J. EronPietro Vernazza(University of St. Gallen)Szu‐Yun Leu(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)Paul W. Stewart(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)Li‐Ean Goh(GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom))Myron S. Cohen(University of St. Gallen)
Abstract
Empirical biological data strongly support the hypothesis that sexual transmission by acutely infected individuals has a disproportionate effect on the spread of HIV-1 infection. Acute hyperinfectiousness may, in part, explain the current pandemic in heterosexual individuals.
HIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsHIV Research and TreatmentHIV, Drug Use, Sexual RiskSemenTransmission (telecommunications)ImmunologySexual transmissionViral diseaseVirologyMedicineSexually transmitted diseaseSex organHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
MeSH terms
CoitusFemaleHumansMaleModels, BiologicalRetrospective StudiesRNA, ViralSemenViremiaModels, StatisticalCohort StudiesHIV-1HIV InfectionsDisease Transmission, InfectiousReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Funding
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- GlaxoSmithKline
- National Institutes of Health
- Center for AIDS Research, University of Washington
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Center for AIDS Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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666
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