Author response to comment on "The placenta harbors a unique microbiome"

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 254, 2014, Pages

  Aagaard, Kjersti M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA; RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; BACTEREMIA; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; DNA EXTRACTION; FECES MICROFLORA; HUMAN; LETTER; MATERNAL BLOOD; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; FEMALE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PREGNANCY;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84907290319     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3010007     Document Type: Letter

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