Reproductive tract microbiome in assisted reproductive technologies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1364-1371

  Franasiak, Jason M ^a,b   Scott, Richard T ^a,b  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE ASSOCIATES OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

infertility; IVF; Microbiome

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM MICROBIOME; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE MICROBIOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); UTERINE MICROBIOME; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINAL MICROBIOME; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; RIBOTYPING; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENITALIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MICROBIOTA; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RIBOTYPING; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84953205880     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.10.012     Document Type: Review

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