Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice
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Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice
Objective: Our laboratory previously demonstrated that asymptomatic vaginal colonization during pregnancy is a factor predisposing patients to subsequentsymptomatic vulvovaginal candidiasis. It is unknownwhether symptoms result from strain replacement or a change in host relationship to the original colonizing strain. This study was undertaken to determine whether Candida albicans isolates from...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.111-a246