Scarcity or absence of humoral immune responses in the plasma and cervicovaginal lavage fluids of heavily HIV-1-exposed but persistently seronegative women.

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Published in AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses on November 22, 2010

Authors

Jiri Mestecky1, Peter F Wright, Lucia Lopalco, Herman F Staats, Pamela A Kozlowski, Zina Moldoveanu, Rashada C Alexander, Rose Kulhavy, Claudia Pastori, Leonard Maboko, Gabriele Riedner, Yuwei Zhu, Terri Wrinn, Michael Hoelscher

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.

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