Modeling transfer of vaginal microbiota from mother to infant in early life
eLife, 2021 Early-life microbiota has been linked to the development of chronic inflammatory diseases. It has been hypothesized that maternal vaginal microbiota is an important initial seeding source and therefore might have lifelong effects on disease risk.
Martin Steen Mortensen +8 more
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The significance of Lactobacillus crispatus and L. vaginalis for vaginal health and the negative effect of recent sex: a cross-sectional descriptive study across groups of African women [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Women in sub-Saharan Africa are vulnerable to acquiring HIV infection and reproductive tract infections. Bacterial vaginosis (BV), a disruption of the vaginal microbiota, has been shown to be strongly associated with HIV infection.
Gilles F Ndayisaba +12 more
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Optimising the management of vaginal discharge syndrome in Bulgaria: cost effectiveness of four clinical algorithms with risk assessment [PDF]
, 2010 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the performance and cost effectiveness of the WHO recommendations of incorporating risk-assessment scores and population prevalence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) into vaginal discharge syndrome (VDS)
Anguenot, J-L +10 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020 Background In this study, the association between human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and related cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) or cervical cancer and vaginal microbiome was evaluated in Chinese cohorts.
Yu-luo Chen +7 more
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Reduction of Coxiella burnetii prevalence by vaccination of goats and sheep, the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2011 Recently, the number of human Q fever cases in the Netherlands increased dramatically. In response to this increase, dairy goats and dairy sheep were vaccinated against Coxiella burnetii.
Bouma, A. +7 more
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Vaginal hygiene to prevent postoperative complications in various gynecological diseases [PDF]
РМЖ. Мать и дитя, 2021 I.B. Manukhin, E.I. Manukhina, I.R. Safaryan A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russian Federation Aim: to assess the efficacy of vaginal care hygiene in women with various gynecological disorders ...
E.I. Manukhina, I.R. Safaryan
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Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2017 The vaginal microbiota has great significance in maintaining vaginal health and protecting the host from disease. Recent advances in molecular techniques and informatics allow researchers to explore microbial composition in detail and to compare the ...
Felicia M. T. Lewis +2 more
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Vaginal Microbiome: Rethinking Health and Disease [PDF]
Annual Review of Microbiology, 2012 Vaginal microbiota form a mutually beneficial relationship with their host and have a major impact on health and disease. In recent years our understanding of vaginal bacterial community composition and structure has significantly broadened as a result of investigators using cultivation-independent methods based on the analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA ...
Larry J. Forney, Bing Ma, Jacques Ravel
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Potential Role of Vaginal Microbiota in Ovarian Cancer Carcinogenesis, Progression and Treatment
Pharmaceutics, 2023 Ovarian cancer represents one of the most challenging gynecologic cancers which still has numerous unknowns on the underlying pathogenesis. In addition to the verified contributors such as genomic predisposition and medical history in the carcinogenesis,
Xiumiao Zhao, Zhaoxia Liu, Tingtao Chen
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The vaginal mycobiome: A contemporary perspective on fungi in women's health and diseases
Virulence, 2017 Most of what is known about fungi in the human vagina has come from culture-based studies and phenotypic characterization of single organisms. Though valuable, these approaches have masked the complexity of fungal communities within the vagina.
L. Lat, ey Bradford, J. Ravel
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