Article
A Metagenomics Pipeline to Characterize Self-Collected Vaginal Microbiome Samples
2024-08-14
Abstract excerpt
Vaginitis is a widespread issue for women worldwide, yet current diagnostic tools are lacking. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most prevalent type of vaginitis, found in 10-50% of reproductive aged women. Current diagnostic methods for BV rely on clinical criteria, microscopy, or detection of a few microbes by qPCR. However, many vaginal infections lack a single etiological agent and are characterized by changes i...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9a5d7af4-0e2c-5848-bdbb-f1a9918176e9
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202405.1036.v2
