The role of microbial communities in parturition: Is there evidence of association with preterm birth and perinatal morbidity and mortality?

American Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 613-624

  Ganu, Radhikas ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Aagaard, Kjersti M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

metagenomics; microbiome; pregnancy; preterm birth

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN 2; SERELAXIN; SOMATOMEDIN RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ANEMIA; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIRTH; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMORBIDITY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUNISITIS; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; MALARIA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEWBORN DEATH; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PYROSEQUENCING; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STILLBIRTH; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VAGINITIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREMATURE BIRTH; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 84883135194     PISSN: 07351631     EISSN: 10988785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1329693     Document Type: Review

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