Stress modifies the vaginal flora in cyclic female rats

Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 161-169

  Konstandi, Maria ^a   Voidarou, Chrissa ^a   Papadaki, Aikaterini ^a   Tsiotsias, Arsenis ^a   Kotsovolou, Olga ^a   Evangelou, Evaggelos ^a   Bezirtzoglou, Eugenia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clostridum; Lactobacillus; Stress; Vaginal flora

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HORMONE ACTION; LACTOBACILLUS; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPOROGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; VEGETATIVE STAGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSOBACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 33845667478     PISSN: 0891060X     EISSN: 16512235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08910600601072464     Document Type: Article

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