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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
Volume 130, Issue 6, Pages 2903-2919Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI132583
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [P01AI030731, R01 AI121129]
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The mechanisms underlying rapid elimination of herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2) in the human genital tract despite low CDEV and CD4(+) tissue-resident T cell (Trm cell) density are unknown. We analyzed shedding episodes during chronic HSV-2 infection; viral clearance always predominated within 24 hours of detection even when viral load exceeded 1 x10(2) HSV DNA copies, and surges in granzyme B and IFN-gamma occurred within the early hours after reactivation and correlated with local viral load. We next developed an agent-based mathematical model of an HSV-2 genital ulcer to integrate mechanistic observations of Trm cells in in situ proliferation, trafficking, cytolytic effects, and cytokine alarm signaling from murine studies with viral kinetics, histopathology, and lesion size data from humans. A sufficiently high density of HSV-2-specific Trm cells predicted rapid elimination of infected cells, but our data suggest that such Trm cell densities are relatively uncommon in infected tissues. At lower, more commonly observed Trm cell densities, Trm cells must initiate a rapidly diffusing, polyfunctional cytokine response with activation of bystander T cells in orderto eliminate a majority of infected cells and eradicate briskly spreading HSV-2 infection.
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