Microorganisms within Human Follicular Fluid: Effects on IVF

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Pelzer, Elise S ^a,b   Allan, John A ^c   Waterhouse, Mary A ^b   Ross, Tara ^c   Beagley, Kenneth W ^a   Knox, Christine L ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b WESLEY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH IVF   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCES; ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIRTH RATE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS OUTCOME; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; SCREENING TEST; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR FLUID; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; VAGINA;

EID: 84874860266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059062     Document Type: Article

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