Reproductive Microbiomes: A New Thread in the Microbial Network

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1482-1492

  Power, Michael L ^a,b   Quaglieri, Caroline ^a   Schulkin, Jay ^a,c  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS   (United States)

^b Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial vaginosis; microbiota; milk; pelvic inflammatory disease; placenta

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BREAST MILK; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; ETHNICITY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAMMARY GLAND; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; MOTHER; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; VAGINA; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINAL SEEDING; VAGINITIS; ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MILK, HUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; VAGINA;

EID: 85031295911     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719117698577     Document Type: Review

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