Heterogeneity of vaginal microbial communities within individuals

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1181-1189

  Kim, Tae Kyung ^a,e   Thomas, Susan M ^a   Ho, Mengfei ^b   Sharma, Shobha ^a,f   Reich, Claudia I ^b   Frank, Jeremy A ^b   Yeater, Kathleen M ^a,g   Biggs, Diana R ^a   Nakamura, Noriko ^b   Stumpf, Rebecca ^a   Leigh, Steven R ^a   Tapping, Richard I ^a,b,c   Blanke, Steven R ^a,b   Slauch, James M ^a,b,c   Gaskins, H Rex ^a,b   Weisbaum, Jon S ^a,c,d   Olsen, Gary J ^a,b   Hoyer, Lois L ^a   Wilson, Brenda A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Department of Microbiology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^d CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES; CHLAMYDIACEAE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIUM; GARDNERELLA; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VAGINA; VAGINA FLORA; WOMEN'S HEALTH; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249096027     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00854-08     Document Type: Article

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