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Vaginal microbicides: detecting toxicities in vivo that paradoxically increase pathogen transmission
BACKGROUND: Microbicides must protect against STD pathogens without causing unacceptable toxic effects. Microbicides based on nonoxynol-9 (N9) and other detergents disrupt sperm, HSV and HIV membranes, and these agents are effective contraceptives. But paradoxically N9 fails to protect women against...
Autores principales: | Cone, Richard A, Hoen, Timothy, Wong, XiXi, Abusuwwa, Raed, Anderson, Deborah J, Moench, Thomas R |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2006
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1523343/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16740164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-90 |
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