Selected vaginal bacteria and risk of preterm birth: An ecological perspective

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 209, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1087-1094

  Wen, Ai ^a   Srinivasan, Usha ^a   Goldberg, Deborah ^a   Owen, John ^b   Marrs, Carl F ^a   Misra, Dawn ^c   Wing, Deborah A ^d   Ponnaluri, Sreelatha ^a   Miles Jay, Arianna ^a   Bucholz, Brigette ^a   Abbas, Khadija ^a   Foxman, Betsy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

community analysis; microbial community; preterm birth; vaginal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MATERNAL SMOKING; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); VAGINA FLORA; VAGINAL LAVAGE; VAGINITIS;

COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PRETERM BIRTH; VAGINAL;

ADULT; BIOTA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899019032     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jit632     Document Type: Article

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