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

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

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 formally compared...

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Main Authors: Derseree Archary, Lenine J Liebenberg, Lise Werner, Sahil Tulsi, Nelisile Majola, Nivashnee Naicker, Sarah Dlamini, Thomas J Hope, Natasha Samsunder, Salim S Abdool Karim, Lynn Morris, Jo-Ann S Passmore, Nigel J Garrett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4492781?pdf=render

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