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Vaginal Lactobacillus Flora of Healthy Swedish Women

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2002
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Title
Vaginal Lactobacillus Flora of Healthy Swedish Women
Published in
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2002
DOI 10.1128/jcm.40.8.2746-2749.2002
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Authors

Alejandra Vásquez, Tell Jakobsson, Siv Ahrné, Urban Forsum, Göran Molin

Abstract

Species of the Lactobacillus acidophilus complex are generally considered to constitute most of the vaginal Lactobacillus flora, but the flora varies between studies. However, this may be due to difficulties in identifying the closely related species within the L. acidophilus complex by using traditional methods and to variations in the vaginal status of the participants. Two hundred two isolates from the vaginal fluids of 23 Swedish women without bacterial vaginosis, as defined by the criteria of Nugent et al. (R. P. Nugent, M. A. Krohn, and S. L. Hillier, J. Clin. Microbiol. 29:297-301, 1991), were typed by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis and identified to the species level by temporal temperature gradient gel electrophoresis, multiplex PCR, and 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing. The vaginal flora of most participants was dominated by a single RAPD type, but five of them harbored two RAPD types representing two different species or strains. The most frequently occurring species were Lactobacillus crispatus, Lactobacillus gasseri, Lactobacillus iners, and Lactobacillus jensenii. L. iners has not previously been reported as one of the predominant Lactobacillus species in the vagina.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 233 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 46 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 13%
Student > Master 30 13%
Researcher 29 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 7%
Other 31 13%
Unknown 52 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 55 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 34 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 33 14%
Immunology and Microbiology 24 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 8 3%
Other 22 9%
Unknown 60 25%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 March 2024.
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#5
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