Identification and Characterization of Bacterial Vaginosis-Associated Pathogens Using a Comprehensive Cervical-Vaginal Epithelial Coculture Assay

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Eade, Colleen R ^a   Diaz, Camila ^a   Wood, Matthew P ^a   Anastos, Kathryn ^b   Patterson, Bruce K ^c   Gupta, Phalguni ^d   Cole, Amy L ^a   Cole, Alexander M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DEFENSIN; DEFENSIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM VAGINAE; BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS ASSICIATED BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; CELL ASSAY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL TYPE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INOCULATION; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS VAGINALIS; NONHUMAN; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; VAGINA EPITHELIUM; VAGINITIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BETA-DEFENSINS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; LYMPHOCYTES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

ATOPOBIUM VAGINAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS VAGINALIS;

EID: 84869233973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050106     Document Type: Article

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