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Comprehensive Assessment of HIV Target Cells in the Distal Human Gut Suggests Increasing HIV Susceptibility Toward the Anus
8 Feb 2013
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BACKGROUND: Prevention of rectal HIV transmission is a high-priority goal for vaccines and topical microbicides because a large fraction of HIV transmissions occurs rectally. Yet, little is known about the specific target-cell milieu in the human rectum other than inferences made from the colon. METHODS: We conducted a comprehensive comparative in situ fluorescence study of HIV target cells (CCR5-expressing T...
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