| | AEGiS-AIDSWeekly: AIDS and HIV Vertical Transmission: Human herpesvirus 6 variant linked to heightened risk |
 | | NewsRx -- A highly prevalent form of human herpesvirus could increase the risk of vertical HIV transmission, researchers in Europe report. |
 | | "Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) may interact during transplacental transmission of HIV-1," according to Eszter Csoma and colleagues at the University of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary, and the Danish Cancer Society in Aarhus, Denmark. |
 | | Coinfection of placental cells had no effect on HHV-6A virulence (Human herpesvirus 6 variant a infects human term syncytiotrophoblasts in vitro and induces replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in dually infected cells, J Med Virol 2002 May;67(1):67-87. |
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