The Human Vaginal Bacterial Biota and Bacterial Vaginosis

Table 1

Koch’s postulates [1].

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The etiologic microbe should be found in every case of the disease

The etiologic microbe should not be found in subjects without disease (specificity)

The etiologic microbe should be isolated in pure culture on lifeless media and be capable of causing the characteristic disease anew upon inoculation in a susceptible host

The etiologic microbe should be reisolated from the experimentally inoculated host.

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