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How Do High-Risk Uninfected Women Resist HIV?

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 12th, 1996

Exhaustive immunological studies of Zambian women who remain uninfected despite repeated sexual exposure to HIV revealed only one difference from matched, unexposed women:

"The high risk seronegative women had significantly lower proliferative responses to an alloreactive stimulator cell line," said John F. Krowka of the University of California, San Francisco.

Krowka announced the study findings - and offered several possible explanations for them - at the XI International Conference on AIDS, held July 7-12, 1996 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Krowka and colleagues obtained blood samples from 18 HIV negative women...

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