Differing prevalence and diversity of bacterial species in fetal membranes from very preterm and term labor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Jones, Hannah E ^a,b   Harris, Kathryn A ^c   Azizia, Malika ^b   Bank, Lindsay ^a   Carpenter, Bernadette ^a   Hartley, John C ^c   Klein, Nigel ^a   Peebles, Donald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MONOCYTE; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77953986657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008205     Document Type: Article

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