The vaginal bacterial communities of Japanese women resemble those of women in other racial groups
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- 1 March 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 58 (2) , 169-181
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-695x.2009.00618.x
Abstract
To determine whether different racial groups shared common types of vaginal microbiota, we characterized the composition and structure of vaginal bactKeywords
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