Variation in vaginal immune parameters and microbial hydrolytic enzymes in bacterial vaginosis positive pregnant women with and without Mobiluncus species

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 516-521

  Culhane, Jennifer F ^a   Nyirjesy, Paul ^a   McCollum, Kelly ^a   Goldenberg, Robert L ^b   Gelber, Shari E ^a   Cauci, Sabina ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; Mobiluncus; Prolidase; Sialidase; Vaginal mucosal immunology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HYDROLASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; PROLINE DIPEPTIDASE; SIALIDASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOBILUNCUS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANK SUM TEST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VAGINA SECRETION; VAGINITIS;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADULT; DIPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-8; MOBILUNCUS; NEURAMINIDASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 33746475106     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2006.02.036     Document Type: Article

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