Mechanisms of sexually transmitted infection‐induced inflammation in women: implications for HIV risk

Globally, sexually transmitted infections (STI) affect >300 million people annually, and are a major cause of sexual and reproductive health complications in women. In this commentary, we describe how STIs interact with the immune and non‐immune cells, both within and below the cervicovaginal mucosal barrier, to cause inflammation, which in turn has been associated with increased HIV acquisition risk.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of the International AIDS Society

• Publication date

  2019-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/jia2.25346PMID 31468677PMCID 6715949
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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