The gut microbiome and aquatic toxicology: an emerging concept for environmental health

O Adamovsky, AN Buerger… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The microbiome plays an essential role in the health and onset of diseases in all animals,
including humans. The microbiome has emerged as a central theme in environmental …

The truth about metagenomics: quantifying and counteracting bias in 16S rRNA studies

JP Brooks, DJ Edwards, MD Harwich, MC Rivera… - BMC microbiology, 2015 - Springer
Background Characterizing microbial communities via next-generation sequencing is
subject to a number of pitfalls involving sample processing. The observed community …

Differences in vaginal microbiome in African American women versus women of European ancestry

JM Fettweis, JP Brooks, MG Serrano… - …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
Women of European ancestry are more likely to harbour a Lactobacillus-dominated
microbiome, whereas African American women are more likely to exhibit a diverse microbial …

Effects of combined oral contraceptives, depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system on the vaginal microbiome

JP Brooks, DJ Edwards, DL Blithe, JM Fettweis… - Contraception, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives Prior studies suggest that the composition of the vaginal microbiome may
positively or negatively affect susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and …

Species-level classification of the vaginal microbiome

JM Fettweis, MG Serrano, NU Sheth, CM Mayer… - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background The application of next-generation sequencing to the study of the vaginal
microbiome is revealing the spectrum of microbial communities that inhabit the human …

Changes in vaginal community state types reflect major shifts in the microbiome

JP Brooks, GA Buck, G Chen, L Diao… - Microbial ecology in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Recent studies of various human microbiome habitats have revealed
thousands of bacterial species and the existence of large variation in communities of …

Genomic sequence analysis and characterization of Sneathia amnii sp. nov

MD Harwich, MG Serrano, JM Fettweis, JMP Alves… - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Bacteria of the genus Sneathia are emerging as potential pathogens of the
female reproductive tract. Species of Sneathia, which were formerly grouped with …

MeFiT: merging and filtering tool for illumina paired-end reads for 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing

HI Parikh, VN Koparde, SP Bradley, GA Buck… - BMC …, 2016 - Springer
Background Recent advances in next-generation sequencing have revolutionized genomic
research. 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing using paired-end sequencing on the MiSeq …

Comparison of Lactobacillus crispatus isolates from Lactobacillus-dominated vaginal microbiomes with isolates from microbiomes containing bacterial vaginosis …

AA Abdelmaksoud, VN Koparde, NU Sheth… - …, 2016 - microbiologyresearch.org
Vaginal lactobacilli can inhibit colonization by and growth of other bacteria, thereby
preventing development of bacterial vaginosis (BV). Amongst the lactobacilli, Lactobacillus …

Identification of a gene in Mycoplasma hominis associated with preterm birth and microbial burden in intraamniotic infection

MJ Allen-Daniels, MG Serrano, LP Pflugner… - American journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective Microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity is associated with spontaneous preterm
labor and adverse pregnancy outcome, and Mycoplasma hominis often is present. However …