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... > Bacteria > Gram-Positive Bacteria > Gram-Positive Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods, Irregular > Actinobacteria > Gardnerella > Gardnerella vaginalis

Preferred term

Gardnerella vaginalis  

Type

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Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Corynebacterium vaginale
  • Haemophilus vaginalis
  • Hemophilus vaginalis

Note

  • infection: coordinate with GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS and also with VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL if pertinent

Scope note

  • A species in the genus GARDNERELLA previously classified as Haemophilus vaginalis. This bacterium, also isolated from the female genital tract of healthy women, is implicated in the cause of bacterial vaginosis (VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL).

History note

  • 90(75); was HAEMOPHILUS VAGINALIS see under HAEMOPHILUS 1975-89; CORYNEBACTERIUM VAGINALE was see GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS 1983-91

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006194

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