Culturing of female bladder bacteria reveals an interconnected urogenital microbiota

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Thomas White, Krystal ^a   Forster, Samuel C ^b,c,d   Kumar, Nitin ^b   Van Kuiken, Michelle ^a   Putonti, Catherine ^e   Stares, Mark D ^b   Hilt, Evann E ^a   Price, Travis K ^a   Wolfe, Alan J ^a   Lawley, Trevor D ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; MICROORGANISM; PHYLOGENETICS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLADDER; COMMENSAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTIOUS AGENT; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; VAGINA FLORA; AGED; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MIDDLE AGED; VAGINA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS INERS; PROTEOBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; URINARY BLADDER; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85045894437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03968-5     Document Type: Article

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