Bacterial communities of the coronal sulcus and distal urethra of adolescent males

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Nelson, David E ^a   Dong, Qunfeng ^b   van der Pol, Barbara ^a   Toh, Evelyn ^a   Fan, Baochang ^a   Katz, Barry P ^c   Mi, Deming ^c   Rong, Ruichen ^b   Weinstock, George M ^d   Sodergren, Erica ^d   Fortenberry, J Dennis ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Washington University St Louis School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CIRCUMCISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEMELLA; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MEGASPHAERA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOBILUNCUS; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PREVOTELLA; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SNEATHIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; UREAPLASMA; URETHRA; URINALYSIS; VAGINITIS; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PENIS; SEXUALITY; URINE;

ATOPOBIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEMELLA; LACTOBACILLUS; MEGASPHAERA; MOBILUNCUS; MYCOPLASMA; PREVOTELLA; SNEATHIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; UREAPLASMA;

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIA; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METAGENOME; PENIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEXUAL PARTNERS; URETHRA; URINE; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84860997726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036298     Document Type: Article

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