Dietary supplementation with probiotics during late pregnancy: Outcome on vaginal microbiota and cytokine secretion

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Vitali, Beatrice ^a   Cruciani, Federica ^a   Baldassarre, Maria Elisabetta ^b   Capursi, Teresa ^b   Spisni, Enzo ^a   Valerii, Maria Chiara ^a   Candela, Marco ^a   Turroni, Silvia ^a   Brigidi, Patrizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOTAXIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 9; RANTES; VSL3;

ADULT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVOTELLA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; TH2 CELL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINAL SECRETION; VEILLONELLA;

ADULT; BIOTA; CYTOKINES; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METAGENOME; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROBIOTICS; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

ATOPOBIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 84867519625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-236     Document Type: Article

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