Understanding the Immune Battlefields of Genital Herpes

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Dr. Jia Zhu is a research professor at the University of Washington Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. Her research studies the tissue-based immune response to herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection in humans. She has spent most of her career focused on understanding intricate interactions between HSV and the local immune responses in human skin. Early on she developed novel laboratory tools to detect how immune cells behave in genital tissues during the active and latent phases of herpes infection. These pivotal studies led to the plausible explanation on how local inflammation by chronic HSV reactivation increases HIV acquisition.

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