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- Title
Interactions of HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, and genital tract inflammation facilitating local pathogen transmission and acquisition.
- Authors
Mayer, Kenneth H; Venkatesh, Kartik K
- Abstract
Despite several decades of clinical trials assessing the impact of etiological treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) to decrease HIV acquisition and transmission, almost all of these trials have not proven to be efficacious. Increasing evidence suggests that specific STD treatment alone may not be sufficient to alter the genital tract inflammatory milieu that is created by STDs. This paper examines the associations between STDs and HIV susceptibility and infectiousness, and considers the role of chronic and refractory inflammation to create an environment that potentiates HIV and STD transmission and acquisition by reviewing biological, observational, and clinical trial data.
- Publication
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989), 2011, Vol 65, Issue 3, p308
- ISSN
1600-0897
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0897.2010.00942.x