Female genital tissue not foolproof barrier to HIV sexual transmission
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 06:02
in Health & Medicine
Contrary to a widely-held assumption about heterosexual transmission of HIV, the normal mucosal lining of the female genital tract is not a foolproof barrier to viral penetration, scientists at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago report at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 48th Annual Meeting, 13-17 December 2008 in San Francisco...