Poor reliability of vaginal and endocervical cultures for evaluating microbiology of endometrial cavity in women with chronic endometritis

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 108-115

  Cicinelli, Ettore ^a   De Ziegler, Dominique ^b   Nicoletti, Roberto ^a   Tinelli, Raffaele ^a   Saliani, Nicola ^a   Resta, Leonardo ^a   Bellavia, Marina ^a   De Vito, Danila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Chlamydia; Chronic endometritis; Hysteroscopy; Infertility; Ureaplasma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM CYTOLOGY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYSTEROSCOPY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORGANELLA MORGANII; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SIMULANS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERUS CAVITY; VAGINA CYTOLOGY;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 66749093556     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000223819     Document Type: Article

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