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The Vaginal Microbiota of Pregnant Women Varies with Gestational Age, Maternal Age, and Parity

Published:2023-08-17 Issue:4 Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Romero Roberto¹²³,Theis Kevin R.¹⁴⁵^ORCID,Gomez-Lopez Nardhy¹⁴⁵⁶^ORCID,Winters Andrew D.¹⁵,Panzer Jonathan J.¹⁵^ORCID,Lin Huang⁷,Galaz Jose¹⁴⁸,Greenberg Jonathan M.¹⁴,Shaffer Zachary¹⁹,Kracht David J.¹⁴,Chaiworapongsa Tinnakorn¹⁴,Jung Eunjung¹⁴¹⁰,Gotsch Francesca¹⁴,Ravel Jacques¹¹¹²^ORCID,Peddada Shyamal D.⁷,Tarca Adi L.¹⁴⁶¹³

Affiliation:

1. Pregnancy Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

3. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA

5. Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA

6. Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA

7. Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

8. Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

9. Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA

10. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea

11. Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

12. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

13. Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University College of Engineering, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Abstract

There is debate regarding links between the vaginal microbiota and pregnancy complications, especially spontaneous preterm birth. Inconsistencies in results among studies are likely due to differences in sample sizes and cohort ethnicity.

Funder

HHS | NIH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.03429-22

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