What’s Sex Got to Do With It? Understanding Potential Confounding and Exposure Misclassification in Mechanistic Sexually Transmitted Infection Research

Author:

Deese Jennifer1ORCID,Wang Meng2,Lapple Dana3,Nelson Julie A E4,Kuerten Bethany5,Steiner Markus J6,Chen Pai Lien7,Hobbs Marcia M3

Affiliation:

1. Global Public Health Impact Center, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

2. Target PharmaSolutions, Durham, North Carolina, USA

3. Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

4. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

5. Upstream USA, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

6. Product Development and Introduction, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, USA

7. Biostatistics, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Abstract

Abstract We conducted a prospective study of 13 heterosexual couples to understand the impact of recent condomless vaginal sex on vaginal immune marker measurement and potential exposure misclassification due to the presence of semen. All immune markers were detectable in semen and concentrations of vaginal immune markers varied by sex recency.

Funder

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for AIDS Research

National Institutes of Health

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Immunology and Allergy

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