Prevalence and abundance of uncultivated Megasphaera-like bacteria in the human vaginal environment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1656-1659

  Zozaya Hinchliffe, Marcela ^a   Martin, David H ^b   Ferris, Michael J ^a,b,c  

^a The Research Institute for Children at Children's Hospital New Orleans   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; RNA; TISSUE CULTURE;

CULTIVATION INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS; PHYLOTYPES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BODY FLUID; GENE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MEGASPHAERA; MEGASPHAERA ELSDENII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MEGASPHAERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEGASPHAERA;

EID: 40549105056     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02127-07     Document Type: Article

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