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Seminal Shedding of CMV and HIV Transmission among Men Who Have Sex with Men
As in many urban areas in the United States, the largest burden of the HIV epidemic in San Diego is borne by men who have sex with men (MSM). Using data from well-characterized HIV transmitting and non-transmitting partner pairs of MSM in San Diego, we calculated the population attributable risk (PA...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515676/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26198239 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120707585 |
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author | Gianella, Sara Scheffler, Konrad Mehta, Sanjay R. Little, Susan J. Freitas, Lorri Morris, Sheldon R. Smith, Davey M. |
author_facet | Gianella, Sara Scheffler, Konrad Mehta, Sanjay R. Little, Susan J. Freitas, Lorri Morris, Sheldon R. Smith, Davey M. |
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description | As in many urban areas in the United States, the largest burden of the HIV epidemic in San Diego is borne by men who have sex with men (MSM). Using data from well-characterized HIV transmitting and non-transmitting partner pairs of MSM in San Diego, we calculated the population attributable risk (PAR) of HIV transmissions for different co-infections common among MSM in this area. We found that over a third of HIV transmissions could be potentially attributed to genital shedding of cytomegalovirus (CMV) (111 transmission events), compared to 21% potentially attributed to bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STI) (62 events) and 17% to herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) (51 events). Although our study cannot infer causality between the described associations and is limited in sample size, these results suggest that interventions aimed at reducing CMV shedding might be an attractive HIV prevention strategy in populations with high prevalence of CMV co-infection. |
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spelling | pubmed-45156762015-07-28 Seminal Shedding of CMV and HIV Transmission among Men Who Have Sex with Men Gianella, Sara Scheffler, Konrad Mehta, Sanjay R. Little, Susan J. Freitas, Lorri Morris, Sheldon R. Smith, Davey M. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article As in many urban areas in the United States, the largest burden of the HIV epidemic in San Diego is borne by men who have sex with men (MSM). Using data from well-characterized HIV transmitting and non-transmitting partner pairs of MSM in San Diego, we calculated the population attributable risk (PAR) of HIV transmissions for different co-infections common among MSM in this area. We found that over a third of HIV transmissions could be potentially attributed to genital shedding of cytomegalovirus (CMV) (111 transmission events), compared to 21% potentially attributed to bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STI) (62 events) and 17% to herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) (51 events). Although our study cannot infer causality between the described associations and is limited in sample size, these results suggest that interventions aimed at reducing CMV shedding might be an attractive HIV prevention strategy in populations with high prevalence of CMV co-infection. MDPI 2015-07-07 2015-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4515676/ /pubmed/26198239 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120707585 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gianella, Sara Scheffler, Konrad Mehta, Sanjay R. Little, Susan J. Freitas, Lorri Morris, Sheldon R. Smith, Davey M. Seminal Shedding of CMV and HIV Transmission among Men Who Have Sex with Men |
title | Seminal Shedding of CMV and HIV Transmission among Men Who Have Sex with Men |
title_full | Seminal Shedding of CMV and HIV Transmission among Men Who Have Sex with Men |
title_fullStr | Seminal Shedding of CMV and HIV Transmission among Men Who Have Sex with Men |
title_full_unstemmed | Seminal Shedding of CMV and HIV Transmission among Men Who Have Sex with Men |
title_short | Seminal Shedding of CMV and HIV Transmission among Men Who Have Sex with Men |
title_sort | seminal shedding of cmv and hiv transmission among men who have sex with men |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515676/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26198239 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120707585 |
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