Comparison of culture-dependent and culture-independent molecular methods for characterization of vaginal microflora.

CONCLUSION: We found little overlap between the species found using cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent methods. Rather, culture-dependent and culture-independent methods were found to be complementary in describing the vaginal microflora among South Indian women. Culture-independent methods were found to be superior in detecting clinically relevant vaginal flora.
PMID: 28260585 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - February 28, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Pandya S, Ravi K, Srinivas V, Jadhav S, Khan A, Arun A, Riley LW, Madhivanan P Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research