Is there a role for lactobacilli in prevention of urogenital and intestinal infections?

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 335-344

  Reid, Gregor ^a,d   Bruce, Andrew W ^a   McGroarty, Jacqueline A ^a   Cheng, K J ^b   Costerton, J William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTESTINE INFECTION; LACTOBACILLUS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; VAGINITIS;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VAGINITIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS;

EID: 0025011246     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.3.4.335     Document Type: Review

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