Metabolic Signatures of Bacterial Vaginosis

ABSTRACT Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is characterized by shifts in the vaginal microbiota from Lactobacillus dominant to a microbiota with diverse anaerobic bacteria. Few studies have linked specific metabolites with bacteria found in the human vagina. Here, we report dramatic differences in metabolite...

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Main Authors: Sujatha Srinivasan, Martin T. Morgan, Tina L. Fiedler, Danijel Djukovic, Noah G. Hoffman, Daniel Raftery, Jeanne M. Marrazzo, David N. Fredricks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015-05-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00204-15