The significance of Lactobacillus crispatus and L. vaginalis for vaginal health and the negative effect of recent sex: a cross-sectional descriptive study across groups of African women
1 Department of Public Health, Unit of Epidemiology and Control of HIV/STD, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, Antwerp, B-2000, Belgium
2 Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
3 Laboratory Bacteriology Research, University Gent, Ghent, Belgium
4 International Center for Reproductive Health (ICRH), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
6 Wits Reproductive Health HIV Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
7 ICRH Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya
8 Rinda Ubuzima, Kigali, Rwanda
9 Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
10 Department of Clinical Sciences, HIV/STI Reference Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium