Major Potential Confounder Not Addressed

Jennifer Vines This is the fi rst of 12 Correspondence pieces in this issue that are in response to an important PLoS Medicine Research Article: Auvert B, Taljaard D, Lagarde E, Sobngwi-Tambekou J, Sitta R, et al. (2005) Randomized, controlled intervention trial of male circumcision for reduction of HIV infection risk: The ANRS 1265 trial. PLoS Med 2(11): e298. Readers wishing to add their own views may do so using our E-letters facility, where the debate continues.

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  2006

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  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2006-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030063PMID 16435893PMCID 1360637
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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