How Do Viral and Host Factors Modulate the Sexual Transmission of HIV? Can Transmission Be Blocked?
Open Access
- 28 February 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 3 (2), e79
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030079
Abstract
A better understanding of sexual transmission, say the authors, will enable more rational design of vaccines and microbicides and potential combinations of the two.Keywords
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