An emerging mycoplasma associated with trichomoniasis, vaginal infection and disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Fettweis, Jennifer M ^a   Serrano, Myrna G ^a   Huang, Bernice ^a   Brooks, J Paul ^a   Glascock, Abigail L ^a   Sheth, Nihar U ^a   Strauss, Jerome F ^b   Jefferson, Kimberly K ^a   Buck, Gregory A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN; O SIALOGLYCOPROTEIN ENDOPEPTIDASE; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; BSPA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNAA GENE; DNAN GENE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GIRERDII; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VAGINA PH; VAGINITIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOPLASMOSIS; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; VAGINA; VAGINAL TRICHOMONIASIS;

MYCOPLASMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COINFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VAGINA;

EID: 84908364937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110943     Document Type: Article

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