Incompletely Reported Important Methodological Details and Inaccurate Description of the Formulation That the Control Arms Received in a Gardasil Vaccine Trial

Florence Bourgeois; Peter Doshi; Kyungwan Hong; Tom Jefferson; Mark Jones; Haeyoung Lee; Anisa Rowhani-Farid; Larissa Shamseer; O’Mareen M. Spence

doi:10.1128/mSphere.00770-20

Incompletely Reported Important Methodological Details and Inaccurate Description of the Formulation That the Control Arms Received in a Gardasil Vaccine Trial

Florence Bourgeois
, Peter Doshi^*
, Kyungwan Hong
, Tom Jefferson
, Mark Jones
, Haeyoung Lee
, Anisa Rowhani-Farid
, Larissa Shamseer
, O’Mareen M. Spence

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	mSphere
Volume	5
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00770-20
Publication status	Published - 2020

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