Vaginal microbiota of women with frequent vulvovaginal candidiasis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4130-4135

  Zhou, Xia ^a   Westman, Rachel ^a   Hickey, Roxana ^a   Hansmann, Melanie A ^b   Kennedy, Colleen ^c   Osborn, Thomas W ^b   Forney, Larry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORBIDITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA FLORA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIA; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECURRENCE; VAGINA;

EID: 69049105452     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00436-09     Document Type: Article

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