The perinatal microbiome and pregnancy: Moving beyond the vaginal microbiome

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1-23

  Prince, Amanda L ^a   Chu, Derrick M ^a   Seferovic, Maxim D ^a   Antony, Kathleen M ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Aagaard, Kjersti M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; LACTIC ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMASS; BIRTH; CAUCASIAN; CESAREAN SECTION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GARDNERELLA INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; GONORRHEA; HAPLOTYPE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS INERS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROBIOME; MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVOTELLA BIVIA; PROTEUS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STILLBIRTH; UREAPLASMA; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VAGINAL DYSBIOSIS; VAGINITIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOUSE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; VAGINA;

MUS; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; METAGENOMICS; MICE; MICROBIOTA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; VAGINA;

EID: 84930390671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a023051     Document Type: Article

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