Lack of detection of a human placenta microbiome in samples from preterm and term deliveries

Abstract Background Historically, the human womb has been thought to be sterile in healthy pregnancies, but this idea has been challenged by recent studies using DNA sequence-based methods, which have suggested that the womb is colonized with bacteria. For example, analysis of DNA from placenta samp...

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Published in:	Microbiome
Main Authors:	Jacob S. Leiby, Kevin McCormick, Scott Sherrill-Mix, Erik L. Clarke, Lyanna R. Kessler, Louis J. Taylor, Casey E. Hofstaedter, Aoife M. Roche, Lisa M. Mattei, Kyle Bittinger, Michal A. Elovitz, Rita Leite, Samuel Parry, Frederic D. Bushman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2018-10-01
Subjects:	Placenta Shotgun metagenomics 16S rRNA gene Microbiome Preterm birth
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-018-0575-4