Breast milk cellular HIV-specific interferon γ responses are associated with protection from peripartum HIV transmission.
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2012Author
Lohman-Payne, B
Slyker, JA
Moore, S
Maleche-Obimbo, E
Wamalwa, DC
Richardson, BA
Rowland-Jones, S
Mbori-Ngacha, DA
Farquhar, C,
Overbaugh, J
John-Stewart, G
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Breast milk is a major route of infant HIV infection, yet the majority of breast-fed, HIV-exposed infants escape infection by unknown mechanisms. This study aimed to investigate the role of HIV-specific breast milk cells in preventing infant HIV infection.
DESIGN:A prospective study was designed to measure associations between maternal breast milk HIV-specific interferon-γ (IFN-γ) responses and infant HIV-1 detection at 1 month of age.
METHODS:In a Kenyan cohort of HIV-infected mothers, blood and breast milk HIV-gag IFN-γ ELISpot responses were measured. Logistic regression was used to measure associations between breast milk IFN-γ responses and infant HIV infection at 1 month of age.
RESULTS:IFN-γ responses were detected in breast milk from 117 of 170 (69%) women. IFN-γ responses were associated with breast milk viral load, levels of macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP) 1α, MIP-1β, regulated upon activation, normal T-cell expressed, and secreted and stromal-cell derived factor 1 and subclinical mastitis. Univariate factors associated with infant HIV infection at 1 month postpartum included both detection and breadth of breast milk IFN-γ response (P = 0.08, P = 0.04, respectively), breast milk MIP-1β detection (P = 0.05), and plasma (P = 0.004) and breast milk (P = 0.004) viral load. In multivariate analyses adjusting for breast milk viral load and MIP-1β, breast milk IFN-γ responses were associated with an approximately 70% reduction in infant HIV infection [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 0.29, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.092-0.91], and each additional peptide pool targeted was associated with an approximately 35% reduction in infant HIV (aOR 0.65, 95% CI 0.44-0.97).
CONCLUSION:These data show breast milk HIV-gag-specific IFN-γ cellular immune responses are prevalent and may contribute to protection from early HIV transmission. More broadly, these data suggest breast milk cellular responses are potentially influential in decreasing mother-to-child transmission of viruses.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22948269http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/30139
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3718292/
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AIDS. 2012 Oct 23;26(16):2007-16. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e328359b7e0Collections
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