Effect of sexual activity on vaginal colonization with hydrogen peroxide-producing lactobacilli and gardnerella vaginalis

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1137-1144

  Mitchell, Caroline ^a   Manhart, Lisa E ^b   Thomas, Katherine K ^b   Agnew, Kathy ^a   Marrazzo, Jeanne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA INFECTION; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINA;

ADULT; BACTERIAL LOAD; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LACTOBACILLUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81355161387     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31822e6121     Document Type: Article

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