Vaginal microbiome-host interactions modeled in a human vagina-on-a-chip

Abstract Background A dominance of non-iners Lactobacillus species in the vaginal microbiome is optimal and strongly associated with gynecological and obstetric health, while the presence of diverse obligate or facultative anaerobic bacteria and a paucity in Lactobacillus species, similar to communi...

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Main Authors: Gautam Mahajan, Erin Doherty, Tania To, Arlene Sutherland, Jennifer Grant, Abidemi Junaid, Aakanksha Gulati, Nina LoGrande, Zohreh Izadifar, Sanjay Sharma Timilsina, Viktor Horváth, Roberto Plebani, Michael France, Indriati Hood-Pishchany, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, Douglas S. Kwon, Girija Goyal, Rachelle Prantil-Baun, Jacques Ravel, Donald E. Ingber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-11-01
Series:Microbiome
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01400-1