Human placenta has no microbiome but can contain potential pathogens

Does the human placenta delivered at term have a microbiota? Results of cultivation, quantitative real-time PCR, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and metagenomics

(2019) Kevin R. Theis et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Recognizing the reagent microbiome

(2018) Marcus C. de Goffau et al.   Nature Microbiology

Detecting eukaryotic microbiota with single-cell sensitivity in human tissue

(2018) Susanne Lager et al.   Microbiome

Lack of detection of a human placenta microbiome in samples from preterm and term deliveries

(2018) Jacob S. Leiby et al.   Microbiome

Does a prenatal bacterial microbiota exist?

(2017) M Hornef et al.   Mucosal Immunology

A critical assessment of the “sterile womb” and “in utero colonization” hypotheses: implications for research on the pioneer infant microbiome

(2017) Maria Elisa Perez-Muñoz et al.   Microbiome

Comparison of placenta samples with contamination controls does not provide evidence for a distinct placenta microbiota

(2016) Abigail P. Lauder et al.   Microbiome

Human gut colonisation may be initiated in utero by distinct microbial communities in the placenta and amniotic fluid

(2016) Maria Carmen Collado et al.   Scientific Reports

The preterm placental microbiome varies in association with excess maternal gestational weight gain

(2015) Kathleen M. Antony et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Screening for fetal growth restriction with universal third trimester ultrasonography in nulliparous women in the Pregnancy Outcome Prediction (POP) study: a prospective cohort study

(2015) Ulla Sovio et al.   LANCET

16S rRNA gene-based profiling of the human infant gut microbiota is strongly influenced by sample processing and PCR primer choice

(2015) Alan W. Walker et al.   Microbiome

Deriving accurate microbiota profiles from human samples with low bacterial content through post-sequencing processing of Illumina MiSeq data

(2015) Jake Jervis-Bardy et al.   Microbiome

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

(2014) Susannah J Salter et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The Placenta Harbors a Unique Microbiome

(2014) K. Aagaard et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Kraken: ultrafast metagenomic sequence classification using exact alignments

(2014) Derrick E Wood et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Assembling Single-Cell Genomes and Mini-Metagenomes From Chimeric MDA Products

(2013) Sergey Nurk et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Hypertension in Pregnancy

(2013)   OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Oligotyping: differentiating between closely related microbial taxa using 16S rRNA gene data

(2013) A. Murat Eren et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Artemis: an integrated platform for visualization and analysis of high-throughput sequence-based experimental data

(2011) T. Carver et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets

(2011) R. Schmieder et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The “Great Obstetrical Syndromes” are associated with disorders of deep placentation

(2010) Ivo Brosens et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women

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

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

NCBI BLAST: a better web interface

(2008) M. Johnson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Study protocol. A prospective cohort study of unselected primiparous women: the pregnancy outcome prediction study

(2008) Dharmintra Pasupathy et al.   BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth