Improving Defences at the Portal of HIV Entry: Mucosal and Innate Immunity

Robin J Shattock; Barton F Haynes; Bali Pulendran; Jorge Flores; José Esparza; on behalf of a Working Group convened by the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050081

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Improving Defences at the Portal of HIV Entry: Mucosal and Innate Immunity

Robin J Shattock ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Shattock@sgul.ac.uk
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Barton F Haynes,
Bali Pulendran,
Jorge Flores,
José Esparza,
on behalf of a Working Group convened by the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

Improving Defences at the Portal of HIV Entry: Mucosal and Innate Immunity

Robin J Shattock,
Barton F Haynes,
Bali Pulendran,
Jorge Flores,
José Esparza,
on behalf of a Working Group convened by the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

Published: April 1, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050081

About the Authors

Robin J Shattock: *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Shattock@sgul.ac.uk
Barton F Haynes
Bali Pulendran
Jorge Flores
José Esparza
on behalf of a Working Group convened by the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

Competing Interests

BFH is Principal Investigator of the National Institutes of Health–funded Center for HIV-AIDS Vaccine Immunology; his Duke Human Vaccine Institute has a National Institutes of Health contract in partnership with Wyeth to develop therapeutic HIV vaccines. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

RJS, BFH, and BP organized the Enterprise workshop with the collaboration of JF and JE, and all authors contributed to writing the paper. Participants in the workshop contributed with formal presentations and discussions.

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