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What's Sex Got to Do With It? Understanding Potential Confounding and Exposure Misclassification in Mechanistic Sexually Transmitted Infection Research.
- Source :
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The Journal of infectious diseases [J Infect Dis] 2021 Jul 02; Vol. 224 (1), pp. 137-140. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- We conducted a prospective study of 13 heterosexual couples to understand the impact of recent condomless vaginal sex on vaginal immune marker measurement and potential exposure misclassification due to the presence of semen. All immune markers were detectable in semen and concentrations of vaginal immune markers varied by sex recency.<br /> (© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1537-6613
- Volume :
- 224
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Journal of infectious diseases
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 33179029
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaa705