Genital tissue no foolproof barrier to sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus
Thomas Hope
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Northwestern University Medical School
The rise of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission through heterosexual sex has researchers scrambling for new vaccines and microbicides to block its spread, but findings by researchers at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago challenge a widely held assumption that the normal mucosal lining of the female genital tract is an effective barrier to viral penetration. TO READ MORE....Go to:
https://www.ascb.org/ascbsec/press/embargo/ASCB-pressbook08_Hope.pdf
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