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    J Infect Dis. 2000 May;181(5):1622-8. Epub 2000 Apr 26.

    The effects of protease inhibitor therapy on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 levels in semen (AIDS clinical trials group protocol 850).

    Eron JJ Jr, Smeaton LM, Fiscus SA, Gulick RM, Currier JS, Lennox JL, D'Aquila RT, Rogers MD, Tung R, Murphy RL.

    Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7030, USA. jeron@med.unc.edu.

    Antiretroviral therapy may lead to decreased shedding of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in genital secretions. Thirty men, 19 receiving amprenavir and 11 receiving amprenavir, zidovudine, and lamivudine, donated blood and semen while undergoing treatment, to evaluate the effects of these medications on HIV-1 shedding in semen. Before therapy, 4 men had HIV-1 RNA levels in seminal plasma >6.0 log10 (1 million) copies/mL, markedly higher than levels in blood plasma. Most men (77%) had HIV-1 RNA levels in seminal plasma below the limit of quantification during therapy. Amprenavir alone suppressed HIV-1 RNA levels to <400 copies/mL in seminal plasma in the majority of patients, the first direct demonstration of the antiretroviral effects of a protease inhibitor in the male genital tract. However, 8 men (27%) had measurable HIV-1 in seminal plasma at their last study visit, 4 with increasing levels. Persistent replication of HIV in the genital tract may have implications for the selection of resistant virus and sexual transmission of HIV-1.

    PMID: 10783117 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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