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ReviewAmerican journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989)2011

Interactions of HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, and genital tract inflammation facilitating local pathogen transmission and acquisition.

Kenneth H Mayer, Kartik K Venkatesh

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In one paragraph

Review in American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
85citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

85 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual, Injection Drug Use, or Other Nonoccupational Exposure to HIV - CDC Recommendations, United States, 2025.MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports · 2025
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  4. Genital ulcer disease treatment for reducing sexual acquisition of HIV.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012
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  12. Cabotegravir Maintains Protective Efficacy in the Setting of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Secondary Analysis of HPTN 083.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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25 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kenneth H MayerDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA. kenneth_mayer@brown.edu
Kartik K Venkatesh
Brown University · US

Funding

Translational ScienceP30AI042853 · NIAID · MIRIAM HOSPITAL · PI LARRY K BROWN · 1998 to 2026
$51.7M
Miriam/Brown/Tufts Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research ProgramD43TW000237 · FIC · MIRIAM HOSPITAL · PI CU-UVIN, SUSAN · 1993 to 2014
$10.6M
Clinical Trial Unit for HIV Prevention and Microbicide ResearchU01AI069480 · NIAID · FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER · PI MAYER, KENNETH H · 2008 to 2011
$7.3M
Clinical Trial Unit for HIV Prevention and Microbicide ResearchUM1AI069480 · NIAID · FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER · PI MAYER, KENNETH H · 2012 to 2014
$2.3M
Enhancing HIV Secondary Prevention in a clinical care setting in southern IndiaF30MH079738 · NIMH · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI VENKATESH, KARTIK KAILAS · 2006 to 2011
$270k
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW000237FIC NIH HHS D43TW000237NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI042853NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI42853NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI069480NIAID NIH HHS UM1 AI069480NIMH NIH HHS F30 MH079738NIMH NIH HHS F30 MH079738-01A2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite several decades of clinical trials assessing the impact of etiological treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) to decrease HIV acquisition and transmission, almost all of these trials have not proven to be efficacious. Increasing evidence suggests that specific STD treatment alone may not be sufficient to alter the genital tract inflammatory milieu that is created by STDs. This paper examines the associations between STDs and HIV susceptibility and infectiousness, and considers the role of chronic and refractory inflammation to create an environment that potentiates HIV and STD transmission and acquisition by reviewing biological, observational, and clinical trial data.

Indexed as

Sexually Transmitted DiseasesUrogenital SystemAntiretroviral Therapy, Highly ActiveDisease SusceptibilityDrug InteractionsHIV InfectionsHumansInflammation

Identifiers

PMID21214660
PMCPMC3077541
OpenAlexW1662473182

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