Normal flora and bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy: an overview
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Bacterial flora of vagina and cervix in normal pregnancy.
Pelvic infection in females often occur as a result of colonization by a variety of bacteria On the vaginal and cervical epithelium. The type of organisms present in the vagina depends on pH and the enzymes in the vaginal secretions. Therefore, knowledge of the bacterial inhabitants of the vagina and cervix during pregnancy is important and could be of value in assessing the pathogenesis of sev...
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Reviews in Microbiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1040-841X,1549-7828
DOI: 10.3109/1040841x.2014.954522