Bacterial vaginosis--a microbiological and immunological enigma.

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Published in APMIS on February 01, 2005

Authors

U Forsum1, E Holst, P G Larsson, A Vasquez, T Jakobsson, I Mattsby-Baltzer

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. urban.forsum@imk.liu.se

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