Probability of HIV-1 transmission per coital act in monogamous, heterosexual, HIV-1-discordant couples in Rakai, Uganda.

By R. Gray, M. Wawer, R. Brookmeyer, N. Sewankambo, D. Serwadda, F. Wabwire-mangen, T. Lutalo, Xianbin Li, T. VanCott, Thomas C. Quinn. The Lancet, 2001

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Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Virology

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• The role of sexually transmitted diseases in HIV transmission (2004, background): “However, it is equally likely that factor(s) that amplify the infectiousness of the virus and enhance the susceptibility of individuals to infection are crucial for the spread of HI”
• Rates of HIV-1 transmission per coital act, by stage of HIV-1 infection, in Rakai, Uganda. (2005, result): “We report the rate of HIV transmission per coital act in 235 heterosexual, HIV-discordant couples, with one HIV-infected partner and one monogamous HIV-uninfected partner, who were identified retrospectively from a populationbased cohort in Rakai, Uganda.”
• Gender and sexuality: emerging perspectives from the heterosexual epidemic in South Africa and implications for HIV risk and prevention (2010, background): “While there are sex differences in susceptibility to HIV, which, like all sex differences, are rooted in biology [ 3 ], the patterns of prevalence have more complex origins.”
• Brief but efficient: acute HIV infection and the sexual transmission of HIV. (2004, background): “The average probability of male-female transmission of HIV-1 per unprotected coital act has been estimated, in a large number of observational studies (reviewed in [1, 2]), to be .”
• Mathematical models of infectious disease transmission (2008, background): “gov/sites/entrez?Db=genome&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=12171">HIV-1 during unprotected heterosexual intercourse depends on the viral load of the infectious individual and whether either individual has an ulcerative sexually transmitted diseas”
• Origins of HIV and the AIDS pandemic. (2011, background): “0011) (Gray et al. 2001; Rudicell et al. 2010).”