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SUBMITTER: Zozaya-Hinchliffe M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2863870 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zozaya-Hinchliffe Marcela M Lillis Rebecca R Martin David H DH Ferris Michael J MJ
Journal of clinical microbiology 20100319 5
Knowledge of the abundance of bacterial species in vaginal communities will help us to better understand their role in health and disease. However, progress in this field has been limited because quantifying bacteria in natural specimens is an arduous process. We developed quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) assays to facilitate assessments of bacterial abundance in vaginal specimens and evaluated the utility of these assays by measuring species abundance in patients whose vaginal floras were clin ...[more]