Microbiological findings in endometrial specimen: Our experience

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 285, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1325-1329

  Cicinelli, Ettore ^a   Ballini, Andrea ^a   Marinaccio, Marco ^a   Poliseno, Alessia ^a   Coscia, Maria Francesca ^a   Monno, Rosa ^a   De Vito, Danila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cervix; Endometrial pathology; Microbiological sampling; Mini hysteroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIAL CULTURE; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; STREPTOCOCCUS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UTERINE CERVIX; YEAST; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFECTION; INTESTINE FLORA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLING; TISSUE SECTION; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ENDOMETRIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 84862761562     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-011-2138-9     Document Type: Article

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