Normal vaginal flora in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Qualitative and quantitative study

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 705-712

  Noguchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Tsukumi, Kiyoshi ^a   Udono, Toshifumi ^b   Urano, Toru ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SANWA KAGAKU KENKYUSHO CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDACEAE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LACTOBACILLUS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEXUAL MATURITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; VAGINA FLORA; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLACEAE; MICROBIOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VAGINA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTEROIDACEAE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLACEAE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; VAGINA;

EID: 20044371473     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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