Incidence and epidemiology of Streptococcus pseudoporcinus in the genital tract

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 883-886

  Stoner, Kevin A ^a   Rabe, Lorna K ^a   Austin, Michele N ^a   Meyn, Leslie A ^a,b   Hillier, Sharon L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL HERPES; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NEGRO; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PSEUDOPORCINUS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HERPES; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B'; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 79952349581     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01965-10     Document Type: Article

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