Commentary: Lactobacilli Dominance and Vaginal pH: Why Is the Human Vaginal Microbiome Unique?

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Frontiers in Microbiology

• Publication date

  2017-09-25

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01815PMID 28993762PMCID 5622189
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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