Sentences with phrase «less viral load»
«It could be that they had less viral load, they had protective antibodies, or the placenta stopped the virus reaching the fetus.»
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By reducing viral loads in patients, antiretroviral drugs make transmission less likely.
Those other methods included condom use, seroadapive behaviors (such as taking different positions during intercourse to reduce transmission risk) and treatment as prevention (which could reduce the «viral load» and make it less likely to transfer).
«The viral loads in the saliva in general are low, but there are also anti-microbial components in saliva making that low level of virus even less infectious than it might be in another medium,» says Christina Newman, co-first author of the study with Dudley and also a scientist with the UW - Madison Zika Experimental Science Team.