Recent advances in understanding the microbiology of the female reproductive tract and the causes of premature birth

Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhou, Xia ^a   Brotman, Rebecca M ^b   Gajer, Pawel ^b   Abdo, Zaid ^a   Schüette, Ursel ^a   Ma, Sam ^a   Ravel, Jacques ^b   Forney, Larry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

AEROCOCCUS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; AMNION FLUID; ASIAN; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CANDIDA; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CLOSTRIDIALES; CLOSTRIDIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DELFTIA; EGGERTHELLA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHNICITY; EUBACTERIUM; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GARDNERELLA; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GEMELLA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HISPANIC; HOST; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS INERS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; LACTOBACILLUS MINUTES; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOBACILLUS SALIVARIUS; LEPTOTRICHIA; MEGASPHAERA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOBILUNCUS; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PARVIMONAS; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURITY; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; ROTHIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINA; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; VEILLONELLA; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TIME; UTERUS;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; METAGENOME; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREMATURE BIRTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TIME FACTORS; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 79251559990     PISSN: 10647449     EISSN: 10980997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/737425     Document Type: Review

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