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Detection of HIV-1 proviral DNA in sperm from HIV-1-infected men

DOI

169

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0

References

1994

Year

Omar Bagasra, Homayoon Farzadegan, Thikkavarapu Seshamma, Joseph W. Oakes, Alfred J. Saah, Roger J. Pomerantz
AIDS

Abstract

HIV-1 proviral DNA can be demonstrated by IS-PCR in seminal mononuclear cells and sperm from certain HIV-1-infected men. The role played by proviral DNA in these cells in the sexual transmission of this retroviral agent will require further study.