Rectal lactobacillus species and their influence on the vaginal microflora: A model of male-to-female transsexual women

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2738-2743

  Petricevic, Ljubomir ^a   Kaufmann, Ulrike ^a   Domig, Konrad J ^b   Kraler, Manuel ^b   Marschalek, Julian ^a   Kneifel, Wolfgang ^b   Kiss, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIV KLIN FÜR FRAUENHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

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

Author keywords

Gender dysphoria; Lactobacillus; Neovagina; Rectum; Transsexual women; Vaginal lactobacilli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSGENDER; NEOVAGINA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PENIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTAL FLORA; RECTAL SMEAR; SMEAR; VAGINA; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINA SMEAR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSGENDER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECTUM; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; VAGINA;

EID: 84911462904     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12671     Document Type: Article

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