Critical review: Immunomodulation by seminal factors and implications for male-to-female HIV-1 transmission

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 131-137

  Keogan, Shawn ^a   Siegert, Karl ^b   Wigdahl, Brian ^a   Krebs, Fred C ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cytokine; HIV 1; immunomodulation; semen; transmission

Indexed keywords

CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPERM; VIRUS LOAD; FEMALE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; SEMEN;

EID: 84929943509     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000561     Document Type: Review

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