Association between Lactobacillus species and bacterial vaginosis-related bacteria, and bacterial vaginosis scores in pregnant Japanese women

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 128-

  Tamrakar, Renuka ^a   Yamada, Takashi ^a   Furuta, Itsuko ^a   Cho, Kazutoshi ^a   Morikawa, Mamoru ^a   Yamada, Hideto ^a   Sakuragi, Noriaki ^a   Minakami, Hisanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EGGERTHELLA; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LEPTOTRICHIA; MEGASPHAERA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT CODING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS;

EID: 38649100608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-128     Document Type: Article

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