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SUBMITTER: Burton JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC387601 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Burton Jeremy P JP Devillard Estelle E Cadieux Peter A PA Hammond Jo-Anne JA Reid Gregor G
Journal of clinical microbiology 20040401 4
We sequenced 16S rRNA genes from the vaginal swab contents of a postmenopausal woman with asymptomatic bacterial vaginosis (BV). Sequences from Atopobium vaginae were the most commonly detected. In a survey of 35 other postmenopausal women, this organism was detected in 44% with BV but not in any subjects deemed healthy. ...[more]