scholarly journals Correlation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA Levels in Blood and the Female Genital Tract

1999 ◽  
Vol 179 (4) ◽  
pp. 871-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clyde E. Hart ◽  
Jeffrey L. Lennox ◽  
Melody Pratt‐Palmore ◽  
Thomas C. Wright ◽  
Raymond F. Schinazi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type ◽  
Virus Type ◽  
Genital Tract ◽  
Female Genital Tract ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Female Genital ◽  
Rna Levels

scholarly journals Correlation between Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA Levels in the Female Genital Tract and Immune Activation Associated with Ulceration of the Cervix

2000 ◽  
Vol 181 (6) ◽  
pp. 1950-1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Lawn ◽  
Shambavi Subbarao ◽  
Thomas C. Wright, Jr. ◽  
Tammy Evans‐Strickfaden ◽  
Tedd V. Ellerbrock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type ◽  
Virus Type ◽  
Immune Activation ◽  
Genital Tract ◽  
Female Genital Tract ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Female Genital ◽  
Rna Levels

scholarly journals Association between Bacterial Vaginosis and Expression of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA in the Female Genital Tract

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 894-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Cu‐Uvin ◽  
Joseph W. Hogan ◽  
Angela M. Caliendo ◽  
Joseph Harwell ◽  
Kenneth H. Mayer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Bacterial Vaginosis ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type ◽  
Virus Type ◽  
Genital Tract ◽  
Female Genital Tract ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Female Genital

scholarly journals Detection and Quantitation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 in the Female Genital Tract

2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 3822-3824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Baron ◽  
James Bremer ◽  
Steven S. Wasserman ◽  
Marek Nowicki ◽  
Barbara Driscoll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type ◽  
Virus Type ◽  
Female Genital Tract ◽  
Rna Detection ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Cervicovaginal Lavage ◽  
Hiv 1 ◽  
Female Genital

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) was detected in the genital tracts of 59% of 225 women by RNA PCR and in 7% of the women by culture. In a comparison of two sampling methods, endocervical swabs were more sensitive than cervicovaginal lavage for HIV-1 RNA detection by PCR but not by culture and their sensitivity was independent of the concentration of HIV-1 RNA.

scholarly journals Penetration of the Nucleoside Analogue Abacavir into the Genital Tract of Men Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. e91-e92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rieneke M. E. van Praag ◽  
Rolf P. G. van Heeswijk ◽  
Suzanne Jurriaans ◽  
Joep M. A. Lange ◽  
Richard M. W. Hoetelmans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type ◽  
Virus Type ◽  
Nucleoside Analogue ◽  
Genital Tract ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus

scholarly journals Comparisons of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Envelope Variants in Blood and Genital Fluids near the Time of Male-to-Female Transmission

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey A. Williams-Wietzikoski ◽  
Mary S. Campbell ◽  
Rachel Payant ◽  
Airin Lam ◽  
Hong Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type ◽  
Virus Type ◽  
Genital Tract ◽  
Recent Common Ancestor ◽  
Female Partners ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Male To Female ◽  
Hiv 1

ABSTRACTTo better understand the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the genetic characteristics of blood and genital viruses from males were compared to those of the imputed founding virus population in their female partners. Initially serodiscordant heterosexual African couples with sequence-confirmed male-to-female HIV-1 transmission and blood and genital specimens collected near the time of transmission were studied. Single viral templates from blood plasma and genital tract RNA and DNA were sequenced across HIV-1envgp160. Eight of 29 couples examined yielded viral sequences from both tissues. Analysis of these couples’ sequences demonstrated, with one exception, that the women’s founding viral populations arose from a single viral variant and were CCR5 tropic, even though CXCR4 variants were detected within four males. The median genetic distance of the imputed most recent common ancestor of the women’s founder viruses showed that they were closer to the semen viruses than to the blood viruses of their transmitting male partner, but this finding was biased by detection of a greater number of viral clades in the blood. Using multiple assays, the blood and genital viruses were consistently found to be compartmentalized in only two of eight men. No distinct amino acid signatures in the men’s viruses were found to link to the women’s founders, nor did the women’senvsequences have shorter variable loops or fewer N-linked glycosylation sites. The lack of selective factors, except for coreceptor tropism, is consistent with others’ findings in male-to-female and high-risk transmissions. The infrequent compartmentalization between the transmitters’ blood and semen viruses suggests that cell-free blood virus likely includes HIV-1 sequences representative of those of viruses in semen.IMPORTANCEMucosal transmissions account for the majority of HIV-1 infections. Identification of the viral characteristics associated with transmission would facilitate vaccine design. This study of HIV strains from transmitting males and their seroconverting female partners found that the males’ genital tract viruses were rarely distinct from the blood variants. The imputed founder viruses in women were genetically similar to both the blood and genital tract variants of their male partners, indicating a lack of evidence for genital tract-specific lineages. These findings suggest that targeting vaccine responses to variants found in blood are likely to also protect from genital tract variants.

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