Microflora of the penile skin-lined neovagina of transsexual women

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Weyers, Steven ^a   Verstraelen, Hans ^a   Gerris, Jan ^a   Monstrey, Stan ^a   Dos Santos Lopes Santiago, Guido ^a   Saerens, Bart ^a   De Backer, Ellen ^a   Claeys, Geert ^a   Vaneechoutte, Mario ^a   Verhelst, Rita ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES UREOLYTICUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COITUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; MICROFLORA; MOBILUNCUS CURTISII; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ODOR; PENIS; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ARGINOSUS; VAGINA; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ATOPOBIUM VAGINAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES UREOLYTICUS; CANDIDA; CORYNEBACTERIUM SP.; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; MOBILUNCUS CURTISII; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS;

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSSEXUALISM; VAGINA;

EID: 67549121263     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-9-102     Document Type: Article

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