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- Title
Extravaginal reservoirs of vaginal bacteria as risk factors for incident bacterial vaginosis.
- Authors
Marrazzo, Jeanne M; Fiedler, Tina L; Srinivasan, Sujatha; Thomas, Katherine K; Liu, Congzhou; Ko, Daisy; Xie, Hu; Saracino, Misty; Fredricks, David N
- Abstract
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) represents shifts in microbiota from Lactobacillus spp. to diverse anaerobes. Although antibiotics relieve symptoms and temporarily eradicate BV-associated bacteria (BVAB), BV usually recurs. We investigated the role of extravaginal BVAB reservoirs in recurrence.
- Publication
The Journal of infectious diseases, 2012, Vol 205, Issue 10, p1580
- ISSN
1537-6613
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/infdis/jis242