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...researchers, led by Assistant Professor of Medicine Ruth Ruprecht, tested the vaccine on eight newborn monkeys and 16 adults, according to data published in the February issue of Nature Medicine...
...saliva--is sufficient to be passed on through the mouth or throat. One likely route: the tonsils, which contain large numbers of the kinds of lymph cells favored by HIV and SIV. "We're not saying that oral exposure is more dangerous than anal exposure," notes Dr. Ruth Ruprecht of Dana-Farber. "What we're saying is that oral sex is not safe...
...Ruprecht reports the monkey model along with colleagues from Brigham & Women's Hospital, Worcester's TSI Mason laboratories, and Tufts University in the current issue of the Jurnal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome...
...Ruprecht and her colleagues found that nearly all the monkeys tested positive for SIV-positive at birth. The results, Ruprecht said indicated that human babies whose mothers are HIV poaith's exposed to the virus late in the pregnancy or during actual delivery when the newborn comes in contact with skin or blood expose the fetus must come in contact with the amniotic find...
...Ruprecht and her colleagues are continuing to seek possible therapies by studying the role of the immune system in mothers and infants. "We have a tool to study therapy which will give protections to the fetus," she said...