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Factors associated with the composition and diversity of the cervical microbiota of reproductive-age Black South African women: a retrospective cross-sectional study.
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- Association Between Vaginal Microbiota and Cervical Dysplasia Due to Persistent Human Papillomavirus Infection: A Systematic Review of Evidence from Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing Studies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Pooled it
- The Effect of Exogenous Sex Steroids on the Vaginal Microbiota: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Pooled it
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- The vaginal bacteriome of pregnant Rwandan and Kenyan women, unique regional genera associations with preterm birth.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- Cervical cancer patients' vaginal microbiome and metabolites: research progress and clinical applications.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Microbial regulators of physiological and reproductive health in women of reproductive age: their local, proximal and distal regulatory roles.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Review
- Diversity in women and their vaginal microbiota.Trends in microbiology · 2025Review
- Cervicovaginal Microbiome: Physiology, Age-Related Changes, and Protective Role Against Human Papillomavirus Infection.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Broadening horizons: microbiota as a novel biomarker and potential treatment for endometriosis.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Vaginal Microbiome: Environmental, Biological, and Racial Influences on Gynecological Health Across the Lifespan.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2024Review
- Cervicovaginal microbiota: a promising direction for prevention and treatment in cervical cancer.Infectious agents and cancer · 2024Review
- Deciphering the role of female reproductive tract microbiome in reproductive health: a review.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Review
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- Molecular Identification of Cervical Microbes in HIV-Negative and HIV-Positive Women in an African Setting Using a Customized Bacterial Vaginosis Microbial DNA Quantitative PCR (qPCR) Array.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- A systematic assessment of stress insomnia as the high-risk factor for cervical cancer and interplay of cervicovaginal microbiome.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Review
- Characteristics of Vaginal Microbiome in Reproductive-Age Females with HPV Infection in Xinjiang, China.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Article
- The characteristics and risk factors of human papillomavirus infection: an outpatient population-based study in Changsha, Hunan.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Identification of Vaginal Microbial Communities Associated with Extreme Cervical Shortening in Pregnant Women.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
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methodsThe cervical microbiota from cervical DNA of 62 reproductive-age women were profiled by Ion Torrent sequencing the V4 hypervariable region of the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene and analyzed with the Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology (QIIME), UPARSE, and metagenomeSeq tools. Associations between cervical microbiota and participants' metadata were assessed using GraphPad Prism, R packages and an in-house script.
resultsThe cervical microbiota clustered into three distinct community state types (CSTs):
conclusionsThe majority of Black women in our study had non-
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