Microbial Analysis of Umbilical Cord Blood Reveals Novel Pathogens Associated with Stillbirth and Early Preterm Birth

Microbial Analysis of Umbilical Cord Blood Reveals Novel Pathogens Associated with Stillbirth and Early Preterm Birth

ABSTRACT Stillbirths account for half of all perinatal mortality, but the underlying cause of a significant portion of the cases remains unknown. We set out to test the potential role and extent of microbial infection in stillbirth through a case-control analysis of fetal cord blood collected from t...

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Main Authors: Emilie L. Vander Haar, Guojun Wu, Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, Charlene Thomas, Ronald J. Wapner, Uma M. Reddy, Liping Zhao, Robert M. Silver, Robert L. Goldenberg, Yiping W. Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-10-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
stillbirth
preterm birth
cord blood
microbiome
16S rRNA
amplicon sequence variants
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02036-22

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