ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2022
Analysis of the Vulvar Skin Microbiota in Asymptomatic Women and Patients With Vulvar Lichen Sclerosus Based on 16S rRNA Sequencing.
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- Microbiome impacts quality of life in patients with endometrial cancer and benign gynecological conditions.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Genital Lichen Sclerosus-The Role of the Vulvar Microbiome.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Multi-Omics Analysis of Ileal Mucosa and Mesentery Before and After Ileocecal Resection in Crohn's Disease.United European gastroenterology journal · 2025Article
- Cutaneous dysbiosis in girls with vulvar lichen sclerosus.Microbiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Vulvar Lichen Sclerosus: A Literature Review with Consideration of Integrative Therapies.Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.) · 2025Review
- The relationship between the vaginal and vulvar microbiomes and lichen sclerosus symptoms in post-menopausal women.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A retrospective comparative cohort study of ultra-pulse COAnnals of translational medicine · 2023Article
- The vulvar microbiome in lichen sclerosus and high-grade intraepithelial lesions.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Vulvar lichen sclerosus (VLS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that brings life-long and psychological distress to patients. It remains unclear whether this condition is related to changes in the skin microbial community. The aim of this study was to evaluate the compositional characteristics of the vulvar skin microbiota between VLS patients and asymptomatic postmenopausal women. We included 60 cases of postmenopausal patients in the outpatient vulvar clinic of Peking University First Hospital from August 2020 to October 2020. Thirty-one patients were diagnosed with VLS by vulvar skin biopsy (VLS group), while 29 women were asymptomatic volunteers (control group). DNA was extracted from vulvar skin swabs of the VLS and control groups. The V3-V4 fragments of 16S rRNA were targeted for high-throughput sequencing and gene sequence analysis. The sequencing results were analysed by
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