Identification and evaluation of the microbiome in the female and male reproductive tracts

The diagnosis of chronic endometritis in infertile asymptomatic women: a comparative study of histology, microbial cultures, hysteroscopy, and molecular microbiology

(2018) Inmaculada Moreno et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Characterization of microbiota in male infertility cases uncovers differences in seminal hyperviscosity and oligoasthenoteratozoospermia possibly correlated with increased prevalence of infectious bacteria

(2018) Catarina Monteiro et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY

The microbiome in preterm birth

(2018) Derrick M. Chu et al.   BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY

Updating the 97% identity threshold for 16S ribosomal RNA OTUs

(2018) Robert C Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Mycoplasma genitalium can modulate the local immune response in patients with endometriosis

(2018) Guilherme B. Campos et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Diagnostic Performance of a Molecular Test versus Clinician Assessment of Vaginitis

(2018) Jane R. Schwebke et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbiota-based analysis reveals specific bacterial traits and a novel strategy for the diagnosis of infectious infertility

(2018) Simon Graspeuntner et al.   PLoS One

Biology of the Microbiome 2

(2017) Jia V. Li et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

Seminal microbiome in men with and without prostatitis

(2017) Reet Mändar et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY

Subclinical alteration of the cervical-vaginal microbiome in women with idiopathic infertility

(2017) Giuseppina Campisciano et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Microbial profiling of cpn 60 universal target sequences in artificial mixtures of vaginal bacteria sampled by nylon swabs or self-sampling devices under different storage conditions

(2017) John J. Schellenberg et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

The composition of the vaginal microbiome in first trimester pregnant women influences the level of autophagy and stress in vaginal epithelial cells

(2017) Dimitrios Nasioudis et al.   JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Asymptomatic Infection With Mycoplasma hominis Negatively Affects Semen Parameters and Leads to Male Infertility as Confirmed by Improved Semen Parameters After Antibiotic Treatment

(2017) Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi et al.   UROLOGY

The microbiota continuum along the female reproductive tract and its relation to uterine-related diseases

(2017) Chen Chen et al.   Nature Communications

The urinary microbiota of men and women and its changes in women during bacterial vaginosis and antibiotic treatment

(2017) Cornelia Gottschick et al.   Microbiome

The interaction between vaginal microbiota, cervical length, and vaginal progesterone treatment for preterm birth risk

(2017) Lindsay M. Kindinger et al.   Microbiome

Optimizing methods and dodging pitfalls in microbiome research

(2017) Dorothy Kim et al.   Microbiome

A Review of Bioinformatics Tools for Bio-Prospecting from Metagenomic Sequence Data

(2017) Despoina D. Roumpeka et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Evidence that the endometrial microbiota has an effect on implantation success or failure

(2016) Inmaculada Moreno et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Analysis of the microbiome: Advantages of whole genome shotgun versus 16S amplicon sequencing

(2016) Ravi Ranjan et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

A comprehensive benchmarking study of protocols and sequencing platforms for 16S rRNA community profiling

(2016) Rosalinda D’Amore et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Human Microbiome during Bacterial Vaginosis

(2016) Andrew B. Onderdonk et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Combined effect of diet and cervical microbiome on the risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

(2016) Sang-Soo Seo et al.   CLINICAL NUTRITION

Seminal fluid and fertility in women

(2016) Sarah A. Robertson et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Abnormal vaginal microbiota may be associated with poor reproductive outcomes: a prospective study in IVF patients

(2016) T. Haahr et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Bacterial vaginosis in association with spontaneous abortion and recurrent pregnancy losses

(2016) Şayeste Demirezen et al.   Journal of Cytology

Predominant Lactobacillus species types of vaginal microbiota in pregnant Korean women: quantification of the five Lactobacillus species and two anaerobes

(2016) Jeong Hyun Kim et al.   Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Cervicovaginal cytokines, sialidase activity and bacterial load in reproductive-aged women with intermediate vaginal flora

(2016) Mariana Morena de Vieira Santos-Greatti et al.   JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY

The healthy human microbiome

(2016) Jason Lloyd-Price et al.   Genome Medicine

Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body

(2016) Ron Sender et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Characterisation of the human uterine microbiome in non-pregnant women through deep sequencing of the V1-2 region of the 16S rRNA gene

(2016) Hans Verstraelen et al.   PeerJ

Bacterial communities in penile skin, male urethra, and vaginas of heterosexual couples with and without bacterial vaginosis

(2016) Marcela Zozaya et al.   Microbiome

A perspective on 16S rRNA operational taxonomic unit clustering using sequence similarity

(2016) Nam-Phuong Nguyen et al.   npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Colonization of the upper genital tract by vaginal bacterial species in nonpregnant women

(2015) Caroline M. Mitchell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

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

(2015) Vicky Jespers et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Correlates of the molecular vaginal microbiota composition of African women

(2015) Raju Gautam et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The influence of diet on the gut microbiota and its consequences for health

(2015) Joël Doré et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The effects of variable sample biomass on comparative metagenomics

(2015) Meghan Chafee et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Analyses of Intestinal Microbiota: Culture versus Sequencing: Figure 1

(2015) Andreas Hiergeist et al.   ILAR JOURNAL

Cervicovaginal Bacteria Are a Major Modulator of Host Inflammatory Responses in the Female Genital Tract

(2015) Melis N. Anahtar et al.   IMMUNITY

Endometrial microbiome at the time of embryo transfer: next-generation sequencing of the 16S ribosomal subunit

(2015) J. M. Franasiak et al.   JOURNAL OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS

Gut Microbiome

(2015) Gail A. Cresci et al.   NUTRITION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Temporal and spatial variation of the human microbiota during pregnancy

(2015) Daniel B. DiGiulio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complementary seminovaginal microbiome in couples

(2015) Reet Mändar et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes

(2015) Seth R. Bordenstein et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Primer and platform effects on 16S rRNA tag sequencing

(2015) Julien Tremblay et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Lactobacillus species as biomarkers and agents that can promote various aspects of vaginal health

(2015) Mariya I. Petrova et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Intestinal Microbiota as Modulators of the Immune System and Neuroimmune System: Impact on the Host Health and Homeostasis

(2015) Carlos Magno da Costa Maranduba et al.   Journal of Immunology Research

De novo clustering methods outperform reference-based methods for assigning 16S rRNA gene sequences to operational taxonomic units

(2015) Sarah L. Westcott et al.   PeerJ

The Vaginal Microbiota over an 8- to 10-Year Period in a Cohort of HIV-Infected and HIV-Uninfected Women

(2015) Supriya D. Mehta et al.   PLoS One

A Study of the Vaginal Microbiome in Healthy Canadian Women Utilizing cpn60-Based Molecular Profiling Reveals Distinct Gardnerella Subgroup Community State Types

(2015) Arianne Y. K. Albert et al.   PLoS One

The vaginal microbiome during pregnancy and the postpartum period in a European population

(2015) David A. MacIntyre et al.   Scientific Reports

Presence of aerobic micro-organisms and their influence on basic semen parameters in infertile men

(2014) E. Filipiak et al.   ANDROLOGIA

Erratum to: Colonization of the lower urogenital tract with Ureaplasma parvum can cause asymptomatic infection of the upper reproductive system in women: a preliminary study

(2014) Urszula Kasprzykowska et al.   ARCHIVES OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

(2014) Susannah J Salter et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Comparative genomics of Lactobacillus crispatus suggests novel mechanisms for the competitive exclusion of Gardnerella vaginalis

(2014) Teija Ojala et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Prevalence of chronic endometritis in repeated unexplained implantation failure and the IVF success rate after antibiotic therapy

(2014) E. Cicinelli et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Intra-uterine microbial colonization and occurrence of endometritis in women with endometriosis†

(2014) Khaleque Newaz Khan et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Comparative Functional Genomics of Lactobacillus spp. Reveals Possible Mechanisms for Specialization of Vaginal Lactobacilli to Their Environment

(2014) H. Mendes-Soares et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

An integrated catalog of reference genes in the human gut microbiome

(2014) Junhua Li et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

(2014) Pablo Yarza et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

Bacterial Communities in Semen from Men of Infertile Couples: Metagenomic Sequencing Reveals Relationships of Seminal Microbiota to Semen Quality

(2014) Shun-Long Weng et al.   PLoS One

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

Colonization of the lower urogenital tract with Ureaplasma parvum can cause asymptomatic infection of the upper reproductive system in women: a preliminary study

(2013) Kasprzykowska Urszula et al.   ARCHIVES OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS

Identification and characterisation of vaginal lactobacilli from South African women

(2013) Sonal Pendharkar et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Microbiota of the seminal fluid from healthy and infertile men

(2013) Dongsheng Hou et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Association between the vaginal microbiota, menopause status, and signs of vulvovaginal atrophy

(2013) Rebecca M. Brotman et al.   MENOPAUSE-THE JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MENOPAUSE SOCIETY

Microorganisms within Human Follicular Fluid: Effects on IVF

(2013) Elise S. Pelzer et al.   PLoS One

The Variability of the 16S rRNA Gene in Bacterial Genomes and Its Consequences for Bacterial Community Analyses

(2013) Tomáš Větrovský et al.   PLoS One

The Dental Plaque Microbiome in Health and Disease

(2013) Scott N. Peterson et al.   PLoS One

Taxonomic Classification of Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes Using Short Sequencing Reads: Evaluation of Effective Study Designs

(2013) Orna Mizrahi-Man et al.   PLoS One

A Comparison of Methods for Clustering 16S rRNA Sequences into OTUs

(2013) Wei Chen et al.   PLoS One

Vaginal pH and Microbicidal Lactic Acid When Lactobacilli Dominate the Microbiota

(2013) Deirdre E. O’Hanlon et al.   PLoS One

Diverse Vaginal Microbiomes in Reproductive-Age Women with Vulvovaginal Candidiasis

(2013) Mu-Biao Liu et al.   PLoS One

Chronic Endometritis Due to Common Bacteria Is Prevalent in Women With Recurrent Miscarriage as Confirmed by Improved Pregnancy Outcome After Antibiotic Treatment

(2013) Ettore Cicinelli et al.   Reproductive Sciences

Diversity of the Vaginal Microbiome Correlates With Preterm Birth

(2013) Richard W. Hyman et al.   Reproductive Sciences

Male Circumcision Significantly Reduces Prevalence and Load of Genital Anaerobic Bacteria

(2013) C. M. Liu et al.   mBio

Influence of Vaginal Bacteria and D- and L-Lactic Acid Isomers on Vaginal Extracellular Matrix Metalloproteinase Inducer: Implications for Protection against Upper Genital Tract Infections

(2013) S. S. Witkin et al.   mBio

Mycoplasmateceae species are not found in Fallopian tubes of women with tubo-peritoneal infertility

(2012) Alberto Costoya et al.   Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Molecular diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis: impact on IVF outcome

(2012) J. Mangot-Bertrand et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The Human Microbiome Project strategy for comprehensive sampling of the human microbiome and why it matters

(2012) Kjersti Aagaard et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

The incidence and effect of bacteriospermia and elevated seminal leukocytes on semen parameters

(2012) Trustin Domes et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

The dynamics of the vaginal microbiome during infertility therapy with in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer

(2012) Richard W. Hyman et al.   JOURNAL OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS

A framework for human microbiome research

(2012)   NATURE

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

(2012)   NATURE

Performance comparison of benchtop high-throughput sequencing platforms

(2012) Nicholas J Loman et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health

(2012) Harry J. Flint et al.   Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Therapeutic modulation of intestinal dysbiosis

(2012) Alan W. Walker et al.   PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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

(2012) Kjersti Aagaard et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial Communities of the Coronal Sulcus and Distal Urethra of Adolescent Males

(2012) David E. Nelson et al.   PLoS One

The Cervical Microbiome over 7 Years and a Comparison of Methodologies for Its Characterization

(2012) Benjamin C. Smith et al.   PLoS One

Hormone-Dependent Bacterial Growth, Persistence and Biofilm Formation – A Pilot Study Investigating Human Follicular Fluid Collected during IVF Cycles

(2012) Elise S. Pelzer et al.   PLoS One

Temporal Dynamics of the Human Vaginal Microbiota

(2012) P. Gajer et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Biodiversity and functional genomics in the human microbiome

(2012) Xochitl C. Morgan et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The Human Microbiome Project: A Community Resource for the Healthy Human Microbiome

(2012) Dirk Gevers et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Bacterial vaginosis: what is physiological in vaginal bacteriology? An update and opinion

(2011) PENTTI A. LEPPÄLUOTO   ACTA OBSTETRICIA ET GYNECOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA

Influence of sexual intercourse on genital tract microbiota in infertile couples

(2011) Natalja Borovkova et al.   ANAEROBE

Microbiological findings in endometrial specimen: our experience

(2011) Ettore Cicinelli et al.   ARCHIVES OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS

In vaginal fluid, bacteria associated with bacterial vaginosis can be suppressed with lactic acid but not hydrogen peroxide

(2011) Deirdre E O'Hanlon et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons

(2011) B. J. Haas et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Microbial colonization of follicular fluid: alterations in cytokine expression and adverse assisted reproduction technology outcomes

(2011) Elise S. Pelzer et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Saliva microbiomes distinguish caries-active from healthy human populations

(2011) Fang Yang et al.   ISME Journal

An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial species present in the lower male genital tract: A five-year retrospective study

(2010) Maria Antonia De Francesco et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CONTRACEPTION AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE

IS-pro: high-throughput molecular fingerprinting of the intestinal microbiota

(2010) A. E. Budding et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

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 Effects of Circumcision on the Penis Microbiome

(2010) Lance B. Price et al.   PLoS One

Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women

(2010) J. Ravel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

First-trimester cervical inflammatory milieu and subsequent early preterm birth

(2009) Hyagriv N. Simhan et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

Methods for optimizing DNA extraction before quantifying oral bacterial numbers by real-time PCR

(2009) Mangala A. Nadkarni et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

The NIH Human Microbiome Project

(2009) et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Heterogeneity of Vaginal Microbial Communities within Individuals

(2009) T. K. Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pregnancy Disorders That Lead to Delivery Before the 28th Week of Gestation: An Epidemiologic Approach to Classification

(2008) T. F. McElrath et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Detection and identification of bacterial DNA in semen

(2008) Ann A. Kiessling et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Microflora of the seminal fluid of healthy men and men suffering from chronic prostatitis syndrome

(2008) Iuri B. Ivanov et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY

The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis

(2008) J. R. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH