The Lactobacillus flora in vagina and rectum of fertile and postmenopausal healthy Swedish women

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gustafsson, Rita J ^a   Ahrné, Siv ^a   Jeppsson, Bengt ^a   Benoni, Cecilia ^a   Olsson, Crister ^a   Stjernquist, Martin ^a   Ohlsson, Bodil ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; HORMONE; RNA 16S; ROGOSA AGAR; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE SEQUENCE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLACEAE; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICROFLORA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POSTMENOPAUSE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RECTUM; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SWEDEN; VAGINA; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS; BLOOD; FERTILE PERIOD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FERTILE PERIOD; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTMENOPAUSE; RECTUM; SWEDEN; VAGINA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 80054048839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-11-17     Document Type: Article

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