Sivasankaran Munusamy Ponnan, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Chaitanya Tellapragada, Anoop T Ambikan, Aswathy Narayanan, Sujitha Kathirvel, Manikannan Mathayan, Janani Shankar, Akshaya Rajaraman, Mehar Afshan Amanulla, Thongadi Ramesh Dinesha, Selvamuthu Poongulali, Shanmugam Saravanan, Kailapuri Gangatharan Murugavel, Soumya Swaminathan, Vijayakumar Velu, Barbara Shacklett, Ujjwal Neogi, Luke Elizabeth Hanna
The female genital tract (FGT) is an important site of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Discerning the nature of HIV-specific local immune responses is crucial for identifying correlates of protection in HIV-exposed seronegative (HESN) individuals. The present study involved a comprehensive analysis of soluble immune mediators, secretory immunoglobulins (sIg), natural killer (NK) cells, CXCR5+ CD8+ T cells, T follicular helper (Tfh) cells, and T regulatory cells (Tregs) in the vaginal mucosa as well as the nature and composition of the cervicovaginal microbiome in HESN women...
October 31, 2021: Microbiology Spectrum