Immune parameters of HIV susceptibility in the female genital tract before and after penile-vaginal sex

Avid Mohammadi; Sareh Bagherichimeh; Yoojin Choi; Azadeh Fazel; Elizabeth Tevlin; Sanja Huibner; Sara V. Good; Wangari Tharao; Rupert Kaul

doi:10.1038/s43856-022-00122-7

Communications Medicine (May 2022)

Immune parameters of HIV susceptibility in the female genital tract before and after penile-vaginal sex

Avid Mohammadi,
Sareh Bagherichimeh,
Yoojin Choi,
Azadeh Fazel,
Elizabeth Tevlin,
Sanja Huibner,
Sara V. Good,
Wangari Tharao,
Rupert Kaul

Affiliations

Avid Mohammadi: Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Sareh Bagherichimeh: Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Yoojin Choi: Department of Immunology, University of Toronto
Azadeh Fazel: Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Elizabeth Tevlin: Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Center
Sanja Huibner: Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Sara V. Good: Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg
Wangari Tharao: Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Center
Rupert Kaul: Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00122-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Mohammadi et al. evaluate immune markers and cell types associated with HIV susceptibility in the female genital tract before and after penile-vaginal sex. The authors report that these immune parameters increase rapidly and transiently after sex, with condom use affecting some of the changes observed.

Published in Communications Medicine

ISSN: 2730-664X (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsmed/

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