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. 2020 May;47(5):344-346.
doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001164.

Presence and Concentrations of Select Bacterial Vaginosis-Associated Bacteria Are Associated With Increased Risk of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Catherine L Haggerty  1 , Roberta B Ness  2 , Patricia A Totten  3 , Fouzia Farooq  1 , Gong Tang  4 , Daisy Ko  5 , Xuezhou Hou  5 , Tina L Fiedler  5 , Sujatha Srinivasan  5 , Sabina G Astete  3 , David N Fredricks  5
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Presence and Concentrations of Select Bacterial Vaginosis-Associated Bacteria Are Associated With Increased Risk of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Catherine L Haggerty et al. Sex Transm Dis. 2020 May.

Abstract

In a vaginal 16S ribosomal RNA gene quantitative PCR study of 17 pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) cases and 17 controls who tested positive for Chlamydia trachomatis, women who additionally tested positive for Atopobium vaginae, Sneathia spp., Megasphaera spp., Eggerthella-like bacterium or Prevotella amnii were more likely to develop PID.

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