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Performance of Swabs, Lavage, and Diluents to Quantify Biomarkers of Female Genital Tract Soluble Mucosal Mediators

BACKGROUND: Measurement of immune mediators and antimicrobial activity in female genital tract secretions may provide biomarkers predictive of risk for HIV-1 acquisition and surrogate markers of microbicide safety. However, optimal methods for sample collection do not exist. This study compared coll...

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Autores principales: Dezzutti, Charlene S., Hendrix, Craig W., Marrazzo, Jeanne M., Pan, Zhenyu, Wang, Lei, Louissaint, Nicolette, Kalyoussef, Sabah, Torres, N. Merna, Hladik, Florian, Parikh, Urvi, Mellors, John, Hillier, Sharon L., Herold, Betsy C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21858008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023136