Temporal dynamics of the human vaginal microbiota

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 132, 2012, Pages

  Gajer, Pawel ^a   Brotman, Rebecca M ^a   Bai, Guoyun ^a   Sakamoto, Joyce ^a,c   Schütte, Ursel M E ^b,d   Zhong, Xue ^b,e   Koenig, Sara S K ^a   Fu, Li ^a   Ma, Zhanshan ^b,f   Zhou, Xia ^b   Abdo, Zaid ^b   Forney, Larry J ^b   Ravel, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VAGINA FLORA; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLOME; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VAGINA;

BACTERIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS; VAGINA;

EID: 84860720391     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003605     Document Type: Article

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