Strategies for the evaluation and selection of potential vaginal probiotics from human sources: An exemplary study

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 263-272

  Domig, K J ^a   Kiss, H ^b   Petricevic, L ^b   Viernstein, H ^c   Unger, F ^c   Kneifel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Development; Gynaecology; Lactobacilli; Probiotic

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DNA 16S; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; METRONIDAZOLE; NEOMYCIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG SCREENING; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VAGINA FLORA; WOMEN'S HEALTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PROBIOTICS; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84904068720     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2013.0069     Document Type: Article

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