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Nature Medicine  2, 1080 - 1082 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm1096-1080

Breaching barriers

Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl1 & Simon Wain-Hobson2

  1Swiss Institute for Cancer Research, CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland

  2Unité de Rétrovirologie Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Dr. Roux, F-75724 Paris cedex 15, France

SIV vaginal transmission in monkeys may be enhanced by progesterone (pages 1084−1089).

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