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Previse preterm birth in early pregnancy through vaginal microbiome signatures using metagenomics and dipstick assays.

Daizee Talukdar, Mousumi Sarkar, Taruna Ahrodia, Shakti Kumar, Debjit De, Shankha Nath, Pradipta Jana, Jyoti Verma, Ojasvi Mehta, Akansha Kothidar and 12 more

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Article in iScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Vaginal Microbiome and Preterm Birth in Pregnant Women From India.The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research · 2026
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  4. Vaginal microbiome and its implications in preterm birth.Obstetrics & gynecology science · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Daizee TalukdarFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Mousumi SarkarHuman Microbiome Research Laboratory, Biotechnology Research Innovation Council-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (BRIC-NIBMG), Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
Taruna AhrodiaFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Shakti KumarFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Debjit DeHuman Microbiome Research Laboratory, Biotechnology Research Innovation Council-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (BRIC-NIBMG), Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
Shankha NathHuman Microbiome Research Laboratory, Biotechnology Research Innovation Council-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (BRIC-NIBMG), Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
Pradipta JanaFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Jyoti VermaFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Ojasvi MehtaFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Akansha KothidarFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
J R YodhaanjaliFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Komal SharmaFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Susmita BakshiFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Upma SinghFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Pallavi KshetrapalMaternal and Child Health, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Nitya WadhwaMaternal and Child Health, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Ramachandran ThiruvengadamMaternal and Child Health, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
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G Balakrish NairFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Shinjini BhatnagarMaternal and Child Health, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.
Souvik MukherjeeHuman Microbiome Research Laboratory, Biotechnology Research Innovation Council-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (BRIC-NIBMG), Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
Bhabatosh DasFunctional Genomics Laboratory, Centre for Microbial Research, BRIC-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (BRIC-THSTI), NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Annually, in India, 13% of all newborns are preterm, accounting for 23.4% of preterm birth (PTB) globally. The composition and diversity of the vaginal microbiome have a notable degree of ethnic inequality. For understanding differences in vaginal microbiome composition and functions between adverse and normal pregnancy, we have collected, processed and sequenced 600 high vaginal swab (HVS) samples across the three trimesters of pregnancy from 140 women who delivered at term and 60 women who delivered PTB, adopting a targeted metagenomics approach. The microbial signatures in HVS samples showed

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