Twice-Daily Application of HIV Microbicides Alters the Vaginal Microbiota

ABSTRACT Vaginal HIV microbicides offer great promise in preventing HIV transmission, but failures of phase 3 clinical trials, in which microbicide-treated subjects had an increased risk of HIV transmission, raised concerns about endpoints used to evaluate microbicide safety. A possible explanation...

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Main Authors: Jacques Ravel, Pawel Gajer, Li Fu, Christine K. Mauck, Sara S. K. Koenig, Joyce Sakamoto, Alison A. Motsinger-Reif, Gustavo F. Doncel, Steven L. Zeichner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2012-12-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00370-12