Characterization of culturable vaginal Lactobacillus species among women with and without bacterial vaginosis from the United States and India: A crosssectional study

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue PART 7, 2014, Pages 931-935

  Madhivanan, Purnima ^a,b   Raphael, Eva ^c   Rumphs, Alnecia ^a   Krupp, Karl ^a,b   Ravi, Kavitha ^b   Srinivas, Vijaya ^b   Arun, Anjali ^b   Reingold, Arthur L ^d   Klausner, Jeffrey D ^a,e   Riley, Lee W ^d  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Public Health Research Institute of India   (India)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LACTOBACILLUS; SAN FRANCISCO; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903203569     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.073080-0     Document Type: Article

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