The Vaginal Microbiota of Guinea Pigs

L M Hafner; C R Rush; Peter Timms

doi:10.3109/08910609609166452

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The Vaginal Microbiota of Guinea Pigs

L M Hafner, C R Rush and Peter Timms

Microbial Ecology in Health & Disease, Vol.9(3), pp.123-127

1996

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3109/08910609609166452

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Veterinary Sciences

guinea pigs

vaginal microbiota

vaginal vaccines

The vaginae of four guinea pigs were swabbed and samples cultured aerobically on horse blood agar, in 5 per cent carbon dioxide on MRS agar or anaerobically on anaerobic horse blood agar. Vaginal microbiota consisted almost exclusively of gram-positive bacteria including Corynebacterium, Streptococcus, Enterococcus, Staphylococcus and Lactobacillus species

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Title: The Vaginal Microbiota of Guinea Pigs
Authors: L M Hafner (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
C R Rush (Author) - University of Siena, Italy
Peter Timms (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: Microbial Ecology in Health & Disease, Vol.9(3), pp.123-127
Publisher: Co-Action Publishing
Date published: 1996
DOI: 10.3109/08910609609166452
ISSN: 0891-060X
Copyright note: Copyright © 1996 The Authors. This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Centre for Bioinnovation
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449965902621
Output Type: Journal article

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