Consistent Condom Use Increases the Colonization of Lactobacillus crispatus in the Vagina

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Ma, Liyan ^a   Lv, Zhi ^a   Su, Jianrong ^a   Wang, Jianjie ^a   Yan, Donghui ^a   Wei, Jingjuan ^a   Pei, Shuang ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS;

EID: 84880759310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070716     Document Type: Article

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