The vaginal microbiota of pregnant women who subsequently have spontaneous preterm labor and delivery and those with a normal delivery at term

The composition and stability of the vaginal microbiota of normal pregnant women is different from that of non-pregnant women

(2014) Roberto Romero et al.   Microbiome

Evidence on the Benefits and Harms of Screening and Treating Pregnant Women Who Are Asymptomatic for Bacterial Vaginosis: An Update Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

(2013) Peggy Nygren et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Relationship of Specific Vaginal Bacteria and Bacterial Vaginosis Treatment Failure in Women Who Have Sex with Women

(2013) Jeanne M. Marrazzo et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Viral Infection of the Pregnant Cervix Predisposes to Ascending Bacterial Infection

(2013) K. Racicot et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Selected Vaginal Bacteria and Risk of Preterm Birth: An Ecological Perspective

(2013) Ai Wen et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2010-2011

(2013) B. E. Hamilton et al.   PEDIATRICS

National, regional, and worldwide estimates of preterm birth rates in the year 2010 with time trends since 1990 for selected countries: a systematic analysis and implications

(2012) Hannah Blencowe et al.   LANCET

Learning about who we are

(2012) David A. Relman   NATURE

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

(2012)   NATURE

Evaluation of Methods for the Extraction and Purification of DNA from the Human Microbiome

(2012) Sanqing Yuan et al.   PLoS One

A Metagenomic Approach to Characterization of the Vaginal Microbiome Signature in Pregnancy

(2012) Kjersti Aagaard et al.   PLoS One

Chapter 12: Human Microbiome Analysis

(2012) Xochitl C. Morgan et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Treatment of abnormal vaginal flora in early pregnancy with clindamycin for the prevention of spontaneous preterm birth: a systematic review and metaanalysis

(2011) Ronald F. Lamont et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The vaginal microbiome: new information about genital tract flora using molecular based techniques

(2011) RF Lamont et al.   BJOG-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Endogenous bacterial flora in pregnant women and the influence of maternal genetic variation

(2010) MR Genc et al.   BJOG-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

Comparison of Self-Collected and Physician-Collected Vaginal Swabs for Microbiome Analysis

(2010) L. J. Forney et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

(2010) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

The Enigma of Spontaneous Preterm Birth

(2010) Louis J. Muglia et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Predictive value for preterm birth of abnormal vaginal flora, bacterial vaginosis and aerobic vaginitis during the first trimester of pregnancy

(2009) GG Donders et al.   BJOG-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

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 worldwide incidence of preterm birth: a systematic review of maternal mortality and morbidity

(2009) Stacey Beck et al.   BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Metagenomic Pyrosequencing and Microbial Identification

(2009) J. F. Petrosino et al.   CLINICAL CHEMISTRY

A high Nugent score but not a positive culture for genital mycoplasmas is a risk factor for spontaneous preterm birth

(2009) Si Eun Lee et al.   Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Bacterial Populations in the Vaginas of Healthy Adolescent Women

(2009) Ted Yamamoto et al.   Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Ureaplasma parvum or Mycoplasma hominis as Sole Pathogens Cause Chorioamnionitis, Preterm Delivery, and Fetal Pneumonia in Rhesus Macaques

(2009) Miles J. Novy et al.   Reproductive Sciences

Bacterial vaginosis: A problematic infection from both a perinatal and neonatal perspective

(2009) Jeff M. Denney et al.   Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Diversity of Human Vaginal Bacterial Communities and Associations with Clinically Defined Bacterial Vaginosis

(2008) B. B. Oakley et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Critical Evaluation of Two Primers Commonly Used for Amplification of Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes

(2008) J. A. Frank et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular Quantification ofGardnerella vaginalisandAtopobium vaginaeLoads to Predict Bacterial Vaginosis

(2008) Jean‐Pierre Menard et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Editorial Commentary:Ready or Not: The Molecular Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis

(2008) Rebecca M. Brotman et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions to reduce the morbidity and mortality of preterm birth

(2008) Jay D Iams et al.   LANCET

Epidemiology and causes of preterm birth

(2008) Robert L Goldenberg et al.   LANCET

Microbial Prevalence, Diversity and Abundance in Amniotic Fluid During Preterm Labor: A Molecular and Culture-Based Investigation

(2008) Daniel B. DiGiulio et al.   PLoS One

Rapid detection of Atopobium vaginae and association with organisms implicated in bacterial vaginosis

(2007) Jason P. Trama et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PROBES