Enrichment of clinically relevant organisms in spontaneous preterm-delivered placentas and reagent contamination across all clinical groups in a large pregnancy cohort in the United Kingdom

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 84, Issue 14, 2018, Pages

  Leon, Lydia J ^a   Doyle, Ronan ^b   Diez Benavente, Ernest ^c   Clark, Taane G ^c   Klein, Nigel ^a   Stanier, Philip ^a   Moore, Gudrun E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contamination; Infection; Microbiome; Pregnancy; Preterm birth

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; DNA; GENE ENCODING; OBSTETRICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; GROUPS OF INTERESTS; INFECTION; MICROBIAL PROFILES; MICROBIOME; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; PREGNANCY; PRETERM BIRTH;

EXTRACTION;

BACTERIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA; EXTRACTION METHOD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA; OTUS; UREAPLASMA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NEWBORN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VAGINA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROBIOTA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; UNITED KINGDOM; VAGINA;

EID: 85049879238     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00483-18     Document Type: Article

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