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Ziyaad Valley-Omar1, Sengeziwe Sibeko, Jeffrey Anderson, Sarah Goodier, Lise Werner, Leslie Arney, Vivek Naranbhai, Florette Treurnicht, Melissa-Rose Abrahams, Gama Bandawe, Ronald Swanstrom, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Salim S Abdool Karim, Carolyn Williamson.
Abstract
Alterations of the genital mucosal barrier may influence the number of viruses transmitted from a human immunodeficiency virus-infected source host to the newly infected individual. We used heteroduplex tracking assay and single-genome sequencing to investigate the effect of a tenofovir-based microbicide gel on the transmission bottleneck in women who seroconverted during the CAPRISA 004 microbicide trial. Seventy-seven percent (17 of 22; 95% confidence interval [CI], 56%-90%) of women in the tenofovir gel arm were infected with a single virus compared with 92% (13 of 14; 95% CI, 67%->99%) in the placebo arm (P = .37). Tenofovir gel had no discernable impact on the transmission bottleneck.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22551813 PMCID: PMC3415934 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis305
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN: 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226