Microbial Composition Predicts Genital Tract Inflammation and Persistent Bacterial Vaginosis in South African Adolescent Females

Young African females are at an increased risk of HIV acquisition, and genital inflammation or the vaginal microbiome may contribute to this risk. We studied these factors in 168 HIV-negative South African adolescent females aged 16 to 22 years. Unsupervised clustering of 16S rRNA gene sequences rev...

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Publicado en:Infect Immun
Main Authors: Lennard, Katie, Dabee, Smritee, Barnabas, Shaun L., Havyarimana, Enock, Blakney, Anna, Jaumdally, Shameem Z., Botha, Gerrit, Mkhize, Nonhlanhla N., Bekker, Linda-Gail, Lewis, David A., Gray, Glenda, Mulder, Nicola, Passmore, Jo-Ann S., Jaspan, Heather B.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Host Response and Inflammation
Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736802/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29038128
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00410-17
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