Trimethylamine N-oxidation in Turkish women with bacterial vaginosis

Pharmacogenetics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 459-463

  Sardas, Semra ^a   Akyol, Didem ^b   Green, Rachel L ^c   Mellon, Tracey ^c   Gökmen, Oya ^b   Cholerton, Suzanne ^c  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Neonatal Intensive Care Unit   (Turkey)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; N oxidation; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

TRIMETHYLAMINE; TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; ODOR; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINARY EXCRETION; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHYLAMINES; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SMELL; TURKEY; VAGINAL DISCHARGE; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029842859     PISSN: 0960314X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008571-199610000-00010     Document Type: Article

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