Article
The Relationship Between the Cervical Microbiome, HIV Status, and Pre-Cancerous Lesions
2018-07-24
Abstract excerpt
Nearly all cervical cancers are causally associated with Human Papillomavirus (HPV). The burden of HPV-associated dysplasias in Sub-Saharan Africa is influenced by HIV. To investigate the role of the bacterial microbiome in cervical dysplasia, cytobrush samples were collected directly from cervical lesions of 144 Tanzanian women. The V4 hypervariable region of the 16S rRNA gene was amplified and deep-sequenced. Al...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 18700306-9192-582e-a087-8989d9c0be12
- DOI
- 10.1101/375592
