The genital econiche: Focus on microbiota and bacterial vaginosis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1230, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-58

  Danielsson, Dan ^a   Teigen, Per Kristen ^b   Moi, Harald ^b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; Biofilm development; Evolution; Genital econiche; Immune tolerance; Microbiota; Reproductive effects; Sexual transmission

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; RNA 16S; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM VAGINAE; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDES; BIOFILM; CLOSTRIDIUM; COEVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LEPTOTRICHIA; MICROSCOPY; MOBILUNCUS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREPUCE; PREVOTELLA; PSEUDOMONAS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; RUMINOCOCCUS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; STREPTOCOCCUS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; VEILLONELLA;

ATOPOBIUM; ATOPOBIUM VAGINAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GARDNERELLA; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 79961198113     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06041.x     Document Type: Article

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