No Biological Evidence of XMRV Infection in Cervical Smears from HIV/ HPV Positive and Negative Kenyan Women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  He, Xiaotong ^a   Walker, Thomas D J ^a   Maranga, Innocent O ^b   Oliver, Anthony W ^a   Hampson, Lynne ^a   Hampson, Ian N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; KENYAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STRUCTURAL GENE; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; WART VIRUS; XENOTROPIC MULV RELATED VIRUS;

FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; VAGINAL SMEARS; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS-RELATED VIRUS;

EID: 84867316085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047208     Document Type: Article

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