The microbiota continuum along the female reproductive tract and its relation to uterine-related diseases

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Chen, Chen ^a   Song, Xiaolei ^a,b   Wei, Weixia ^c,d   Zhong, Huanzi ^a,e   Dai, Juanjuan ^c,d   Lan, Zhou ^a   Li, Fei ^a,b   Yu, Xinlei ^a   Feng, Qiang ^a   Wang, Zirong ^a   Xie, Hailiang ^a   Chen, Xiaomin ^a   Zeng, Chunwei ^a   Wen, Bo ^a   Zeng, Liping ^c,d   Du, Hui ^c,d   Tang, Huiru ^c,d   Xu, Changlu ^a,f   Xia, Yan ^a,b   Xia, Huihua ^a   Yang, Huanming ^a,g   Wang, Jian ^a,g   Wang, Jun ^a,h   Madsen, Lise ^a,e,i   Brix, Susanne ^j   Kristiansen, Karsten ^a,e   Xu, Xun ^a   Li, Junhua ^a,k   Wu, Ruifang ^c,d   Jia, Huijue ^a,h   more..

^a BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY SHENZHEN HOSPITAL   (China)

^d Shenzhen Key Laboratory on Technology for Early Diagnosis of Major Gynecological diseases   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g James D Watson Institute of Genome Sciences   (China)

^h MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^j TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^k SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; COLONIZATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; INFERTILITY; MICROORGANISM; PREGNANCY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOBACTERIA; ADENOMYOSIS; AGE; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BIOMASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ERYSIPELOTHRIX; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MICROFLORA; MORGANELLA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS; UTERUS DISEASE; VAGINA FLORA; ADULT; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; FALLOPIAN TUBE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; UTERUS; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; BACTERIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICROBIOTA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; UTERUS; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85031789460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00901-0     Document Type: Article

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