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Anti-Retroviral Lectins Have Modest Effects on Adherence of Trichomonas vaginalis to Epithelial Cells In Vitro and on Recovery of Tritrichomonas foetus in a Mouse Vaginal Model

Trichomonas vaginalis causes vaginitis and increases the risk of HIV transmission by heterosexual sex, while Tritrichomonas foetus causes premature abortion in cattle. Our goals were to determine the effects, if any, of anti-retroviral lectins, which are designed to prevent heterosexual transmission...

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Autores principales: Chatterjee, Aparajita, Ratner, Daniel M., Ryan, Christopher M., Johnson, Patricia J., O’Keefe, Barry R., Secor, W. Evan, Anderson, Deborah J., Robbins, Phillips W., Samuelson, John
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/PMC4529277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26252012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135340