"Prevotella" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of gram-negative, anaerobic, nonsporeforming, nonmotile rods. Organisms of this genus had originally been classified as members of the BACTEROIDES genus but overwhelming biochemical and chemical findings in 1990 indicated the need to separate them from other Bacteroides species, and hence, this new genus was established.
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D018720
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.140.094.640 B03.440.425.410.194.640
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Prevotella" by people in Profiles.
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Pereira L, Culhane J, McCollum K, Agnew K, Nyirjesy P. Variation in microbiologic profiles among pregnant women with bacterial vaginosis. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2005 Sep; 193(3 Pt 1):746-51.
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Alugupalli KR, Kalfas S. Characterization of the lactoferrin-dependent inhibition of the adhesion of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Prevotella intermedia and Prevotella nigrescens to fibroblasts and to a reconstituted basement membrane. APMIS. 1997 Sep; 105(9):680-8.