CONFIDENTIAL MANUSCRIPT Lieberman, JA, et al., 10/07 1 1 Correlates of Cytokine Protein Levels in Cervical Mucus Samples in Young 2 Women by a Multiplex Immunoassay Method 3 4 Jay A. Lieberman, 1 ‡ Anna-Barbara Moscicki, 1 Jan L. Sumerel, 2 † Yifei Ma, 1 and Mark E. Scott 1 * 5 6 Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San 7 Francisco, California, 94143 1 and BioSource International, Camarillo, California, 93012 2 8 9 * Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of California, San Francisco, Box 1374, 10 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94143-1374. Phone: (415) 476-3260. Fax: 11 (415) 502-1222. E-mail: scottm@peds.ucsf.edu. 12 † Present address: Dimatix, Santa Clara, California, 95050. 13 ‡ Present address: Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, 14 Missouri, 63110. 15 16 17 Running title: Correlates of Cytokine Levels in Cervical Mucus 18 ACCEPTED Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. doi:10.1128/CVI.00216-07 CVI Accepts, published online ahead of print on 31 October 2007