Prevalence and characterization of vaginal lactobacillus species in women at reproductive age without vulvovaginitis;Prevalência e caracterização de espécies de lactobacilos vaginais em mulheres em idade reprodutiva sem vulvovaginites

Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 189-195

  Brolazo, Eliane Melo ^a   Simões, Jose Antonio ^a   Nader, Maria Elena Fátima ^b   Tomás, Maria Silvina Juárez ^b   Gregoracci, Gustavo Bueno ^a   Marconi, Camila ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO DE REFERENCIA PARA LACTOBACILOS CERELA CONICET   (Argentina)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Lactobacillus epidemiology; Lactobacillus isolation purification; Polymerase chain reaction methods; Vagina microbiology; Vulvovaginitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOLOGY; VAGINA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; VAGINA;

EID: 68249089517     PISSN: 01007203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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