Comparison of storage conditions for human vaginal microbiome studies.

The effect of storage conditions on the microbiome and metabolite composition of human biological samples has not been thoroughly investigated as a potential source of bias. We evaluated the effect of two common storage conditions used in clinical trials on the bacterial and metabolite composition o...

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Main Authors: Guoyun Bai, Pawel Gajer, Melissa Nandy, Bing Ma, Hongqiu Yang, Joyce Sakamoto, May H Blanchard, Jacques Ravel, Rebecca M Brotman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3360033?pdf=render