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Nature Medicine 6, 607 - 608 (2000)
doi:10.1038/76141

Reply to 'In vitro models of mucosal HIV transmission'

Phalguni Gupta1, Kelly Collins1, Bruce Patterson2, Gregory Naus1 & Daniel Landers1

  1. Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health
  2. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Special Infectious Diseases, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
  3. Departments of Pathology, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Magee Women's Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261

Shattock et al. raised concerns about whether the transmission seen in our organ culture was due to leakage around the tissue1. We believe that the transmission in our system was not due to leakage around the tissue for several reasons.