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Sex, gender and infectious disease

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Despite evidence of sex-specific pathogenesis, few studies of infectious diseases report or analyse sex or gender, unless it is the primary focus. Using HIV as an example, it is argued here that this leaves potentially informative data unexplored and that integrating sex and gender in analyses may accelerate research in microbial pathogenesis.

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E.P.S. is supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding R01AI154541. The content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

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Scully, E.P. Sex, gender and infectious disease. Nat Microbiol 7, 359–360 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01064-5

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