Does intravaginal probiotic supplementation increase the pregnacy rate in IVF-embryo transfer cycles?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-75

  Gilboa, Yinon ^a   Bar Hava, Itai ^a   Fisch, Benjamin ^a   Ashkenazi, Jacob ^a   Voliovitch, Isachar ^a   Borkowski, Tamar ^a   Orvieto, Raoul ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colonization; IVF; Lactobacilli; Pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTROGEN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LACTOBACILLUS; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21844455286     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61301-6     Document Type: Article

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