Diversity of the vaginal microbiome correlates with preterm birth

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 32-40

  Hyman, Richard W ^a   Fukushima, Marilyn ^a   Jiang, Hui ^b   Fung, Eula ^a   Rand, Larry ^c   Johnson, Brittni ^c   Vo, Kim Chi ^c   Caughey, Aaron B ^d   Hilton, Joan F ^c   Davis, Ronald W ^a,e   Giudice, Linda C ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

PTB; race ethnicity; vaginal microbiome

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CONTIG; DNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS BULGARICUS; LACTOBACILLUS COLEOHOMINIS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS FORNICALIS; LACTOBACILLUS GALLINARUM; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS; LACTOBACILLUS INERS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; LACTOBACILLUS KEFIRANOFACIENS; LACTOBACILLUS KITASATONIS; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LACTOBACILLUS ULTUNENSIS; LACTOBACILLUS VAGINALIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UREAPLASMA; VAGINA FLORA;

PTB; RACE/ETHNICITY; VAGINAL MICROBIOME;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; BACTERIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT, PREMATURE; LACTOBACILLUS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBOTYPING; RISK FACTORS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SAN FRANCISCO; VAGINA;

EID: 84890297508     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719113488838     Document Type: Article

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