Potential influence of the microbiome on infertility and assisted reproductive technology

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-42

  Sirota, Ido ^a   Zarek, Shvetha M ^b   Segars, James H ^b  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

in vitro fertilization; Lactobacillus; microbiome; progesterone

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOME; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; ADULT; BLOOD; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; VAGINA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CYTOKINES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOTA; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84891789442     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1361821     Document Type: Article

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