Mucosal Effects of Tenofovir 1%
RESEARCH ARTICLE elifesciences.org Mucosal effects of tenofovir 1% gel Florian Hladik1,2,3*, Adam Burgener4,5†, Lamar Ballweber3†, Raphael Gottardo3,6,7, Lucia Vojtech1, Slim Fourati8, James Y Dai6,7, Mark J Cameron8, Johanna Strobl3, Sean M Hughes1, Craig Hoesley9, Philip Andrew10, Sherri Johnson10, Jeanna Piper11, David R Friend12, T Blake Ball4,5, Ross D Cranston13,14, Kenneth H Mayer15, M Juliana McElrath2,3,16, Ian McGowan13,14* 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle, United States; 2Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, United States; 3Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States; 4Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; 5National HIV and Retrovirology Laboratories, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada; 6Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States; 7Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States; 8Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, Port Saint Lucie, United States; 9Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, United States; 10FHI 360, Durham, United States; 11Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States; 12CONRAD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Arlington, United States; 13University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States; 14Microbicide Trials Network, Magee-Women’s Research Institute, Pittsburgh, United States; 15Fenway Health, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States; 16Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, United States *For correspondence: fhladik@ fhcrc.org (FH); mcgowanim@ mwri.magee.edu (IMG) †These authors contributed Abstract Tenofovir gel is being evaluated for vaginal and rectal pre-exposure prophylaxis against equally to this work HIV transmission.
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