Adsorption of Human Papillomavirus 16 to Live Human Sperm

Julio Pérez-Andino; Christopher B. Buck; Katharina Ribbeck

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005847

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Adsorption of Human Papillomavirus 16 to Live Human Sperm

Julio Pérez-Andino,

Affiliation FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Christopher B. Buck,

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Katharina Ribbeck

* E-mail: kribbeck@cgr.harvard.edu

Affiliation FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Adsorption of Human Papillomavirus 16 to Live Human Sperm

Julio Pérez-Andino,
Christopher B. Buck,
Katharina Ribbeck

Published: June 9, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005847

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Posted by skcampos on 17 Jun 2009 at 19:24 GMT

Interesting paper but it would have been nice to have seen some more data. Do neutralizing antibodies block the virus-sperm interaction, does the virus dissociate from sperm? Are sperm-bound virions still infectious?

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