The immune response during acute HIV-1 infection: clues for vaccine development

AJ McMichael, P Borrow, GD Tomaras… - Nature Reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
The early immune response to HIV-1 infection is likely to be an important factor in
determining the clinical course of disease. Recent data indicate that the HIV-1 quasispecies …

Staphylococcal and streptococcal superantigen exotoxins

AR Spaulding, W Salgado-Pabón… - Clinical microbiology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
This review begins with a discussion of the large family of Staphylococcus aureus and beta-
hemolytic streptococcal pyrogenic toxin T lymphocyte superantigens from structural and …

Type I interferon responses in rhesus macaques prevent SIV infection and slow disease progression

NG Sandler, SE Bosinger, JD Estes, RTR Zhu… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Inflammation in HIV infection is predictive of non-AIDS morbidity and death, higher set point
plasma virus load and virus acquisition; thus, therapeutic agents are in development to …

Genital inflammation and the risk of HIV acquisition in women

L Masson, JAS Passmore, LJ Liebenberg… - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background. Women in Africa, especially young women, have very high human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence rates that cannot be fully explained by behavioral …

HIV‐associated chronic immune activation

M Paiardini, M Müller‐Trutwin - Immunological reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Systemic chronic immune activation is considered today as the driving force of CD 4+ T‐cell
depletion and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). A residual chronic immune …

Antimicrobial and immune modulatory effects of lactic acid and short chain fatty acids produced by vaginal microbiota associated with eubiosis and bacterial vaginosis

M Aldunate, D Srbinovski, AC Hearps… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Lactic acid and short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) produced by vaginal microbiota have
reported antimicrobial and immune modulatory activities indicating their potential as …

Targeting early infection to prevent HIV-1 mucosal transmission

AT Haase - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Measures to prevent sexual mucosal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1
are urgently needed to curb the growth of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) …

HIV transmission

GM Shaw, E Hunter - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
HIV-1 is transmitted by sexual contact across mucosal surfaces, by maternal-infant
exposure, and by percutaneous inoculation. For reasons that are still incompletely …

Phenotypic properties of transmitted founder HIV-1

NF Parrish, F Gao, H Li, EE Giorgi… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Defining the virus–host interactions responsible for HIV-1 transmission, including the
phenotypic requirements of viruses capable of establishing de novo infections, could be …

Nonhuman primate models of human viral infections

JD Estes, SW Wong, JM Brenchley - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Humans have a close phylogenetic relationship with nonhuman primates (NHPs) and share
many physiological parallels, such as highly similar immune systems, with them. Importantly …