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The bacterium may be carried into the vagina during insertion of the absorbent pluglike devices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, after testing their suit intercoms, they closed the inner-portal air lock, reduced the air pressure, and opened the thick pluglike outer portal.

From Treachery in Outer Space by Glanzman, Louis