The significance of Lactobacillus crispatus and L. vaginalis for vaginal health and the negative effect of recent sex: A cross-sectional descriptive study across groups of African women

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Jespers, Vicky ^a   van de Wijgert, Janneke ^b   Cools, Piet ^c   Verhelst, Rita ^c   Verstraelen, Hans ^c   Delany Moretlwe, Sinead ^d   Mwaura, Mary ^e   Ndayisaba, Gilles F ^f   Mandaliya, Kishor ^e   Menten, Joris ^a   Hardy, Liselotte ^a   Crucitti, Tania ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e ICRH Kenya   (Kenya)

^f Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute ^*  (Rwanda)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; HIV prevention; Lactobacillus, reproductive health; quantitative PCR; Sexual health; Sexually transmitted infections; Sub Saharan Africa; Vaginal microbiota

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM VAGINAE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTRACEPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HYGIENE; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVAGINAL CLEANSING; KENYA; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS VAGINALIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUGENT SCORE; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PREVOTELLA BIVIA; PROSTITUTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VAGINAL HEALTH; VAGINITIS; YOUNG ADULT; ACTINOBACTERIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COITUS; COMPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HIV INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVOTELLA; RWANDA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COITUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; LACTOBACILLUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVOTELLA; RWANDA; SEX WORKERS; SOUTH AFRICA; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84928710080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-0825-z     Document Type: Article

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