Composition of the Vaginal Microbiota in Women of Reproductive Age – Sensitive and Specific Molecular Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis Is Possible?

• Elena Shipitsyna,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, D. O. Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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• Annika Roos,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

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• Raluca Datcu,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiological Surveillance and Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Anders Hallén,

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Hans Fredlund,

  Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

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• Jørgen S. Jensen,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiological Surveillance and Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Lars Engstrand,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

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• Magnus Unemo

  * E-mail: magnus.unemo@orebroll.se

  Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

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