More Than Meets the Eye: Associations of Vaginal Bacteria with Gram Stain Morphotypes Using Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Srinivasan, Sujatha ^a   Morgan, Martin T ^a   Liu, Congzhou ^a   Matsen, Frederick A ^a   Hoffman, Noah G ^b   Fiedler, Tina L ^a   Agnew, Kathy J ^c   Marrazzo, Jeanne M ^b   Fredricks, David N ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GARDNERELLA; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MOBILUNCUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS;

BACTEROIDES; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GENTIAN VIOLET; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MOBILUNCUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHENAZINES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84886259007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078633     Document Type: Article

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