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The prostate as a reservoir for HIV-1
Davey M Smith1, Julie D Kingery, Joseph K Wong
1Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
AIDS (London, England)
|July 9, 2004
Abstract:
As the prostate can harbor bacterial and fungal pathogens, it was investigated as a reservoir for HIV. Nine men chronically infected with HIV participated in a crossover trial in which weekly semen samples were collected with and without previous prostate massage (PM). Six of the nine participants had undetectable seminal plasma(SP) HIV RNA in all samples without previous PM, but had detectable SP HIV RNA (> 25 copies/ml) in one to three samples collected after PM.