A Summary of the First HIV Microbiome Workshop 2015.
The role of microbiota in the pathogenesis of HIV infection has become the subject of intense research in recent years. A rapidly growing amount of data suggest that microbial dysbiosis-in the gut or the genital tract-can influence HIV transmission and/or disease progression; however, a deeper understanding of the mechanisms involved is lacking. To better understand the relationship between the microbiome and HIV infection, investigators from a wide variety of disciplines, including those working in basic and clinical HIV studies, cardiovascular disease, reproductive health, and bioinformatics, gathered at the first International Workshop on Microbiome in HIV Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment, at NIH on 7 and 8 April, 2015.
1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center , Chicago, Illinois.
Brett
B
Williams
2 Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center , Chicago, Illinois.
Paria
P
Mirmonsef
3 Department of Virosciences, Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus University , Rotterdam, the Netherlands .
Charles A B
CA
Boucher
4 Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Frederic
F
Bushman
5 Office of AIDS Research, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, Office of the Director, U.S. National Institutes of Health , U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Stacy
S
Carrington-Lawrence
6 Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ronald G
RG
Collman
7 Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of California , Davis, California.
Satya
S
Dandekar
8 Vaccine Research Program, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , Bethesda, Maryland.
Que
Q
Dang
8 Vaccine Research Program, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , Bethesda, Maryland.
Angela
A
Malaspina
9 Institut de Recerca de la SIDA IrsiCaixa i Unitat VIH, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona , Universitat de Vic, Catalonia, Spain .
Roger
R
Paredes
10 HJF-DAIDS , A Division of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Contractor to NIAID, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland.
Arthur
A
Stone
2 Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center , Chicago, Illinois.
Alan
A
Landay
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HIV; immune activation; microbial translocation; microbiome