A metagenomic approach to characterization of the vaginal microbiome signature in pregnancy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Aagaard, Kjersti ^a   Riehle, Kevin ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Segata, Nicola ^b   Mistretta, Toni Ann ^a   Coarfa, Cristian ^a   Raza, Sabeen ^a   Rosenbaum, Sean ^a   van den Veyver, Ignatia ^a   Milosavljevic, Aleksandar ^a   Gevers, Dirk ^c   Huttenhower, Curtis ^b   Petrosino, Joseph ^a   Versalovic, James ^a  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; DNA; RNA 16S;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDALES; CLADISTICS; CLOSTRIDIALES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HOST; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLACEAE; LACTOBACILLALES; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS INERS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; PH; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRINCIPAL COORDINATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXON; VAGINA; VAGINA FLORA; VARIANCE;

ADULT; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; PREGNANCY; VAGINA;

EID: 84862209519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036466     Document Type: Article

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