Bacterial communities in penile skin, male urethra, and vaginas of heterosexual couples with and without bacterial vaginosis

Microbiome

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zozaya, Marcela ^a   Ferris, Michael J ^a,b   Siren, Julia D ^b   Lillis, Rebecca ^b   Myers, Leann ^c   Nsuami, M Jacques ^b   Eren, A Murat ^d   Brown, Jonathan ^e   Taylor, Christopher M ^b   Martin, David H ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Rally Software   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; Microbiome; Penile skin; Sexual transmission; Urethra; Vagina

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; URETHRA; VAGINA; VAGINITIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PATHOLOGY; PREPUCE; SEXUALITY;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FORESKIN; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA; PENIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; URETHRA; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84996554048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20492618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-016-0161-6     Document Type: Article

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