Sialidase activity in women with bacterial vaginosis;Actividad sialidasa en mujeres con vaginosis bacteriana

Medicina

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 131-134

  Ombrella, Adriana M ^a   Belmonte, Adriana ^a   Nogueras, Monica G ^a   Ruiz Abad, Isabel ^a   Sutich, Emma G ^b   Dlugovitzky, Diana G ^a,c  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^c NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; Gardnerella vaginalis; Sialidase

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GUAIACOL; MURAMIC ACID; SIALIDASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS;

BODY FLUIDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMANS; NEURAMINIDASE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYNDROME; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 33646701453     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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