Extravaginal reservoirs of vaginal bacteria as risk factors for incident bacterial vaginosis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 205, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1580-1588

  Marrazzo, Jeanne M ^a   Fiedler, Tina L ^b   Srinivasan, Sujatha ^b   Thomas, Katherine K ^a   Liu, Congzhou ^b   Ko, Daisy ^b   Xie, Hu ^b   Saracino, Misty ^a   Fredricks, David N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA;

ADULT; ANUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS ASSOCIATED BACTERIUM 1; BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS ASSOCIATED BACTERIUM 2; BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS ASSOCIATED BACTERIUM 3; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; LEPTOTRICHIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEGASPHAERA; MOUTH CAVITY; ORAL BIOPSY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECURRENT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SNEATHIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAL CANAL; BACTERIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; LEPTOTRICHIA; MEGASPHAERA; METAGENOME; MOUTH; RISK FACTORS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860356279     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis242     Document Type: Article

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