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HIV-Exposed Seronegative Sex Workers Express Low T-Cell Activation and an Intact Ectocervical Tissue Microenvironment.

Maria Röhl, Annelie Tjernlund, Julie Lajoie, Gabriella Edfeldt, Frideborg Bradley, Sofia Bergström, Vilde Kaldhusdal, Alexandra Åhlberg, Anna Månberg, Kenneth Omollo and 8 more

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Article in Vaccines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. HIV-Exposed Seronegative Female Sex Workers Show Different Cellular Immune Profiles Across the Menstrual Cycle.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2025
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  2. Natural Resistance to HIV Infection: Role of Immune Activation.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Maria RöhlCenter for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.
Annelie TjernlundCenter for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.
Julie LajoieDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya.
Gabriella EdfeldtCenter for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0366-5588
Frideborg BradleyCenter for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.
Sofia BergströmDivision of Affinity Proteomics, Department of Protein Science, SciLifeLab, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.
Vilde KaldhusdalCenter for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.
Alexandra ÅhlbergCenter for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.
Anna MånbergDivision of Affinity Proteomics, Department of Protein Science, SciLifeLab, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.
Kenneth OmolloDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya.
Geneviève Boily-LaroucheDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3A 1R9, Canada.
Muhammad AsgharCenter for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.
Douglas S KwonRagon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Julius OyugiDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya.
Joshua KimaniDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya.
Peter NilssonDivision of Affinity Proteomics, Department of Protein Science, SciLifeLab, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-4657-8532
Keith R FowkeDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya.
Kristina BrolidenCenter for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, 17164 Stockholm, Sweden.
Karolinska University Hospital · SEUniversity of Nairobi · KEScience for Life Laboratory · SERagon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard · USUniversity of Manitoba · CA

Funding

CIHR MOP#86721KTH Center for AppliedPrecision Medicine KCAPOlle Engkvist Byggmästare 188-0156The Swedish Physician against AIDS Foundation KB groupVetenskapsrådet 2019-01754
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunological correlates of natural resistance to HIV have been identified in HIV-exposed seronegative (HESN) individuals and include a low-inflammatory genital mucosal status. The cervicovaginal epithelium has not been studied for such correlates despite constituting an important barrier against sexual HIV transmission. To fill this gap in knowledge, we collected samples of blood, cervical mononuclear cells, cervicovaginal lavage, and ectocervical tissue from Kenyan HESN sex workers (n = 29) and controls (n = 33). The samples were analyzed by flow cytometry, protein profiling, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, in situ image analysis, and tissue-based RNA sequencing. A significantly higher relative proportion of regulatory T cells in blood (B7

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female genital tractHESNHIVHIV-exposed seronegativeimage analysismicrobiomemucosaprotein profilingRNA sequencing

Identifiers

PMID33806390
PMCPMC7998094
OpenAlexW3135395282

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