Feasibility, safety and tolerability of estrogen and/or probiotics for improving vaginal health in Canadian African, Caribbean, and Black women: A pilot phase 1 clinical trial

• Biban Gill,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation McMaster Immunology Research Centre and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Jocelyn M. Wessels,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations McMaster Immunology Research Centre and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Afynia Laboratories, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Christina L. Hayes,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation McMaster Immunology Research Centre and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Jenna Ratcliffe,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation McMaster Immunology Research Centre and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1570-2323

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• Junic Wokuri,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Elizabeth Ball,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation McMaster Immunology Research Centre and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Gregor Reid,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Surgery, Western University, and Canadian Research and Development Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotics, The Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada

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• Rupert Kaul,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departments of Immunology and Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Jesleen Rana,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Muna Alkhaifi,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Wangari Tharao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Fiona Smaill ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kaushic@mcmaster.ca (CK); smaill@mcmaster.ca (FS)

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Charu Kaushic

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kaushic@mcmaster.ca (CK); smaill@mcmaster.ca (FS)

  Affiliation McMaster Immunology Research Centre and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7088-2569

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