Increased Diversity of Fungal Flora in the Vagina of Patients with Recurrent Vaginal Candidiasis and Allergic Rhinitis

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 918-927

  Guo, Renyong ^a   Zheng, Nengneng ^b   Lu, Haifeng ^c   Yin, Hongfang ^b   Yao, Jinmei ^a   Chen, Yu ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b TONGDE HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG PROVINCE   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; VAGINA; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; DOTHIDEOMYCETES; ELADIA SACCULA; FUNGI; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRICHOSPORON (TRICHOSPORONALES); TRICHOSPORON (UNCLASSIFIED); TRICHOSPORON JIROVECII; UNCULTURED FUNGUS;

EID: 84867669000     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0084-0     Document Type: Article

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