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HIV transmission.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Nov 2012
Shaw George M, Hunter Eric
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 is transmitted by sexual contact across mucosal surfaces, by maternal-infant exposure, and by percutaneous inoculation. For reasons that are still incompletely understood, CCR5-tropic viruses (R5 viruses) are preferentially transmitted by all routes. Transmission is followed by an orderly appearance of viral and host markers of infection in the blood plasma. In the acute phase of infection, HIV-1 replicates...
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