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Toll-like receptor variants and cervical Atopobium vaginae infection in women with pelvic inflammatory disease.
Toll-like (TLR) receptor genetic variants have been implicated in bacterial vaginosis (BV). This study determined whether TLR variants are associated with fastidious BV-associated microbes that are linked with infertility following pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). The investigators concluded that host gene variants in TLR2 signaling pathways were modestly associated with cervical A. vaginae in women with clinical PID.
AHRQ-funded; HS008358.
Citation: Taylor BD, Totten PA, Astete SG .
Toll-like receptor variants and cervical Atopobium vaginae infection in women with pelvic inflammatory disease.
Am J Reprod Immunol 2018 Feb;79(2). doi: 10.1111/aji.12804..
Keywords: Genetics, Sexual Health, Women