The Potential of Metatranscriptomics for Identifying Screening Targets for Bacterial Vaginosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Twin, Jimmy ^a,b   Bradshaw, Catriona S ^c,d,e   Garland, Suzanne M ^a,b,f,g   Fairley, Christopher K ^c,e   Fethers, Katherine ^c,e   Tabrizi, Sepehr N ^a,b,f,g  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c MELBOURNE SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; METATRANSCRIPTOME; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; LEPTOTRICHIA; MEGASPHAERA; METATRANSCRIPTOMICS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA AMNII; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VAGINITIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84884693809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076892     Document Type: Article

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