Presence of a Polymicrobial Endometrial Biofilm in Patients with Bacterial Vaginosis

• Alexander Swidsinski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Swidsinski, Hans Verstraelen

  Affiliation Charité Hospital, CCM, Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, Polymicrobial Infections and Bacterial Biofilms and Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Hans Verstraelen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Swidsinski, Hans Verstraelen

  * E-mail: hans.verstraelen@ugent.be

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Vera Loening-Baucke,

  Affiliation Charité Hospital, CCM, Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, Polymicrobial Infections and Bacterial Biofilms and Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Sonja Swidsinski,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Labor Berlin, Neukölln, Berlin, Germany

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• Werner Mendling,

  Affiliation German Centre for Infections in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Wuppertal, Germany

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• Zaher Halwani

  Affiliation DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend, Klinik für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe, Berlin, Germany

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