Gram Stains: A Resource for Retrospective Analysis of Bacterial Pathogens in Clinical Studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Srinivasan, Usha ^a   Ponnaluri, Sreelatha ^a   Villareal, Lisa ^b   Gillespie, Brenda ^a   Wen, Ai ^a   Miles, Arianna ^a   Bucholz, Brigette ^a   Marrs, Carl F ^a   Iyer, Ram K ^b   Misra, Dawn ^c   Foxman, Betsy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOBILUNCUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VAGINA SMEAR;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA; GENTIAN VIOLET; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MOBILUNCUS; PHENAZINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STAINING AND LABELING; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84867416709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042898     Document Type: Article

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