The Vaginal Microbiome: Current Understanding and Future Directions

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 214, Issue , 2016, Pages S36-S41

  Martin, David H ^a,b   Marrazzo, Jeanne M ^c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotics; bacterial vaginosis; genitourinary tract; microbiome; vaginal; women's health

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; RNA GENE; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84992347234     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw184     Document Type: Article

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