Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 750479, 22 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/750479
Review Article

The Human Vaginal Bacterial Biota and Bacterial Vaginosis

Sujatha Srinivasan1 and David N. Fredricks1,2

1Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
2Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Received 14 August 2008; Accepted 6 November 2008

Academic Editor: Thomas M. Schmidt

Copyright © 2008 Sujatha Srinivasan and David N. Fredricks. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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