Influence of menstruation on the microbiota of healthy women's labia minora as analyzed using a 16s rRNA gene-based clone library method

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-80

  Shiraishi, Tsukasa ^a   Fukuda, Kazumasa ^b   Morotomi, Nobuo ^b   Imamura, Yuri ^a   Mishima, Junko ^a   Imai, Shigeo ^a   Miyazawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Taniguchi, Hatsumi ^b  

^a Unicharm Corporation   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM VAGINAE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GENE LIBRARY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; MENSTRUATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMENOPAUSE; VAGINA FLORA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; JAPAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MENSTRUATION; METAGENOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VULVA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 79551605343     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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