Comparison of storage conditions for human vaginal microbiome studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bai, Guoyun ^a   Gajer, Pawel ^a   Nandy, Melissa ^a   Ma, Bing ^a   Yang, Hongqiu ^a   Sakamoto, Joyce ^a,b   Blanchard, May H ^a   Ravel, Jacques ^a   Brotman, Rebecca M ^a  

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

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PROCESSING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PYROSEQUENCING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STORAGE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINA SECRETION; BACTERIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; VAGINA; VAGINA SMEAR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS SP.;

ADULT; BACTERIA; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; METAGENOME; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84861385390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036934     Document Type: Article

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