Race/ethnicity, vaginal flora patterns, and pH during pregnancy

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 96-102

  Royce, Rachel A ^a   Jackson, Tracy P ^b   Thorp Jr , John M ^b   Hillier, Sharon L ^c   Rabe, Lorna K ^c   Pastore, Lisa M ^a   Savitz, David A ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOBILUNCUS; PH; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BACTERIA; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0033049058     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199902000-00007     Document Type: Article

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