Microbiota and pelvic inflammatory disease

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-49

  Sharma, Harsha ^a   Tal, Reshef ^b   Clark, Natalie A ^c   Segars, James H ^d  

^a QUEENS HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial vaginosis; pelvic inflammatory disease; vaginal microbiota

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TUBOOVARIAN ABSCESS; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA FLORA; BIODIVERSITY; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINA; VAGINITIS;

BIODIVERSITY; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84891801138     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1361822     Document Type: Article

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