Changes in vaginal bacterial concentrations with intravaginal metronidazole therapy for bacterial vaginosis as assessed by quantitative PCR

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 721-726

  Fredricks, David N ^a,c   Fiedler, Tina L ^a   Thomas, Katherine K ^a   Mitchell, Caroline M ^a,b   Marrazzo, Jeanne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; METRONIDAZOLE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; LEPTOTRICHIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEGASPHAERA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; METRONIDAZOLE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA; VAGINAL CREAMS, FOAMS, AND JELLIES; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ATOPOBIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; MEGASPHAERA;

EID: 62749193862     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01384-08     Document Type: Article

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