Associations between Vaginal Pathogenic Community and Bacterial Vaginosis in Chinese Reproductive-Age Women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Ling, Zongxin ^a,b   Liu, Xia ^a   Luo, Yueqiu ^a,b   Wu, Xiaoxing ^a,b   Yuan, Li ^a,b   Tong, Xiaojuan ^a,b   Li, Lanjuan ^a,b   Xiang, Charlie ^a,b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EGGERTHELLA; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS INERS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; LEPTOTRICHIA; MEGASPHAERA; NONHUMAN; NUGENT SCORE; PH; PREVALENCE; PREVOTELLA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SNEATHIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINA PH; VAGINITIS;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885068294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076589     Document Type: Article

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