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The murine vaginal microbiota and its perturbation by the human pathogen group B Streptococcus
26 Nov 2018
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BACKGROUND: Composition of the vaginal microbiota has significant influence on female urogenital health and control of infectious disease. Murine models are widely utilized to characterize host-pathogen interactions within the vaginal tract, however, the composition of endogenous vaginal flora remains largely undefined with modern microbiome analyses. Here, we employ 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to establish the...
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