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Defining Vaginal Community Dynamics: daily microbiome transitions, the role of menstruation, bacteriophages and bacterial genes
2023-06-02
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> The composition of the vaginal microbiota during the menstrual cycle is dynamic, with some women remaining eu- or dysbiotic and others transitioning between these states. What defines these dynamics, and whether these differences are microbiome-intrinsic or mostly driven by the host is unknown. To address this, we characterized 49 healthy, young women by metagenomic sequencing of daily vaginal...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3ba98978-4828-5941-91ee-25f2c520c95c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.06.02.543379
