Epidemiologic and Biologic Characterization of a Cohort of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Highly Exposed, Persistently Seronegative Female Sex Workers in Northern Thailand

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Characterization of persons highly exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 who remain uninfected may help define protective immunity. Seventeen HIV-1-seronegative Thai female sex workers (CSWs) with epidemiologic evidence of exposure to HIV-1 were studied for humoral immune responses and phenotypic and genotypic analyses of HLA class I and CCR5 allelic profiles. Infected CSWs and low-risk...

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