Exploring the diversity of gardnerella vaginalis in the genitourinary tract microbiota of monogamous couples through subtle nucleotide variation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Eren, A Murat ^a,b   Zozaya, Marcela ^c   Taylor, Christopher M ^a,c   Dowd, Scot E ^d   Martin, David H ^e   Ferris, Michael J ^c,f  

^a USA   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Research and Testing Laboratory   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOTYPE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTROPY; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA INFECTION; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM STAINING; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFLORA; MONOGAMY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PENIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALITY; TAXONOMY; URETHRA; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VAGINITIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; METAGENOME; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 80055041479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026732     Document Type: Article

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