Effect of sexual debut on vaginal microbiota in a cohort of young women

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1306-1313

  Mitchell, Caroline M ^a   Fredricks, David N ^a   Winer, Rachel L ^a   Koutsky, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM VAGINAE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS INERS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; LEPTOTRICHIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEGASPHAERA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SNEATHIA; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870197222     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31827075ac     Document Type: Article

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