Quantitative PCR assessments of bacterial species in women with and without bacterial vaginosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1812-1819

  Zozaya Hinchliffe, Marcela ^a   Lillis, Rebecca ^b   Martin, David H ^b   Ferris, Michael J ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS INERS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; METAGENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS INERS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; PREVOTELLA;

EID: 77951774144     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00851-09     Document Type: Article

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