The association between ethnicity and vaginal microbiota composition in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The Vaginal Microbiome: Current Understanding and Future Directions

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Vaginal high-risk human papillomavirus infection in a cross-sectional study among women of six different ethnicities in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: the HELIUS study

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(2015) Chris Kenyon et al.   AIDS

The significance of Lactobacillus crispatus and L. vaginalis for vaginal health and the negative effect of recent sex: a cross-sectional descriptive study across groups of African women

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(2015) Raju Gautam et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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Influence of Biofilm Formation byGardnerella vaginalisand Other Anaerobes on Bacterial Vaginosis

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Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Lactobacillus-dominated cervicovaginal microbiota associated with reduced HIV/STI prevalence and genital HIV viral load in African women

(2014) Hanneke Borgdorff et al.   ISME Journal

Differences in vaginal microbiome in African American women versus women of European ancestry

(2014) Jennifer M. Fettweis et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The Vaginal Microbiota: What Have We Learned after a Decade of Molecular Characterization?

(2014) Janneke H. H. M. van de Wijgert et al.   PLoS One

An improved dual-indexing approach for multiplexed 16S rRNA gene sequencing on the Illumina MiSeq platform

(2014) Douglas W Fadrosh et al.   Microbiome

Hormonal contraception decreases bacterial vaginosis but oral contraception may increase candidiasis

(2013) Janneke H.H.M. van de Wijgert et al.   AIDS

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(2013) Chris Kenyon et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Unravelling the impact of ethnicity on health in Europe: the HELIUS study

(2013) Karien Stronks et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Hormonal Contraception Is Associated with a Reduced Risk of Bacterial Vaginosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2013) Lenka A. Vodstrcil et al.   PLoS One

PANDAseq: paired-end assembler for illumina sequences

(2012) Andre P Masella et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Bacterial Communities in Women with Bacterial Vaginosis: High Resolution Phylogenetic Analyses Reveal Relationships of Microbiota to Clinical Criteria

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Temporal Dynamics of the Human Vaginal Microbiota

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Intravaginal Practices, Bacterial Vaginosis, and HIV Infection in Women: Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis

(2011) Nicola Low et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

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(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

TagCleaner: Identification and removal of tag sequences from genomic and metagenomic datasets

(2010) Robert Schmieder et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree

(2010) Frederick A Matsen et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

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Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women

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Longitudinal analysis of the vaginal microflora in pregnancy suggests that L. crispatus promotes the stability of the normal vaginal microflora and that L. gasseri and/or L. iners are more conducive to the occurrence of abnormal vaginal microflora

(2009) Hans Verstraelen et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

The vaginal bacterial communities of Japanese women resemble those of women in other racial groups

(2009) Xia Zhou et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sexual Risk Factors and Bacterial Vaginosis: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

(2008) Katherine A. Fethers et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The utility of ‘country of birth’ for the classification of ethnic groups in health research: the Dutch experience

(2008) Karien Stronks et al.   ETHNICITY & HEALTH

Racial differences in cervical cytokine concentrations between pregnant women with and without bacterial vaginosis

(2008) Kelli K. Ryckman et al.   JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Epidemiology and causes of preterm birth

(2008) Robert L Goldenberg et al.   LANCET