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Translating the vaginal microbiome: gaps and challenges

Management, manipulation, and restoration of a robust vaginal microbiota has the potential to vastly improve women’s health and disease prevention. However, a systems level understanding of how the vaginal microbiota is associated with gynecologic and reproductive health is still needed to develop e...

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Autores principales: Ravel, Jacques, Brotman, Rebecca M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27036316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-016-0291-2
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spelling pubmed-48184022016-04-03 Translating the vaginal microbiome: gaps and challenges Ravel, Jacques Brotman, Rebecca M. Genome Med Comment Management, manipulation, and restoration of a robust vaginal microbiota has the potential to vastly improve women’s health and disease prevention. However, a systems level understanding of how the vaginal microbiota is associated with gynecologic and reproductive health is still needed to develop effective interventional strategies. BioMed Central 2016-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4818402/ /pubmed/27036316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-016-0291-2 Text en © Ravel and Brotman. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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