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Randomized Cross-Sectional Study to Compare HIV-1 Specific Antibody and Cytokine Concentrations in Female Genital Secretions Obtained by Menstrual Cup and Cervicovaginal Lavage

INTRODUCTION: Optimizing methods for genital specimen collection to accurately characterize mucosal immune responses is a priority for the HIV prevention field. The menstrual cup (MC) has been proposed as an alternative to other methods including cervicovaginal lavage (CVL), but no study has yet for...

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Autores principales: Archary, Derseree, Liebenberg, Lenine J., Werner, Lise, Tulsi, Sahil, Majola, Nelisile, Naicker, Nivashnee, Dlamini, Sarah, Hope, Thomas J., Samsunder, Natasha, Abdool Karim, Salim S., Morris, Lynn, Passmore, Jo-Ann S., Garrett, Nigel J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4492781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26147923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131906