[HTML][HTML] The role of lactic acid production by probiotic Lactobacillus species in vaginal health

G Tachedjian, M Aldunate, CS Bradshaw… - Research in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Vaginal eubiosis is characterised by beneficial lactobacillus-dominated microbiota. In
contrast, vaginal dysbiosis (eg bacterial vaginosis, BV), characterised by an overgrowth of …

The human microbiome during bacterial vaginosis

AB Onderdonk, ML Delaney… - Clinical microbiology …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most commonly reported microbiological syndrome among
women of childbearing age. BV is characterized by a shift in the vaginal flora from the …

Lactobacillus iners: friend or foe?

MI Petrova, G Reid, M Vaneechoutte, S Lebeer - Trends in microbiology, 2017 - cell.com
The vaginal microbial community is typically characterized by abundant lactobacilli.
Lactobacillus iners, a fairly recently detected species, is frequently present in the vaginal …

The composition and stability of the vaginal microbiota of normal pregnant women is different from that of non-pregnant women

R Romero, SS Hassan, P Gajer, AL Tarca, DW Fadrosh… - Microbiome, 2014 - Springer
Background This study was undertaken to characterize the vaginal microbiota throughout
normal human pregnancy using sequence-based techniques. We compared the vaginal …

Lactobacillus species as biomarkers and agents that can promote various aspects of vaginal health

MI Petrova, E Lievens, S Malik, N Imholz… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The human body is colonized by a vast number of microorganisms collectively referred to as
the human microbiota. One of the main microbiota body sites is the female genital tract …

Daily vaginal microbiota fluctuations associated with natural hormonal cycle, contraceptives, diet, and exercise

SD Song, KD Acharya, JE Zhu, CM Deveney… - MSphere, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The microorganisms of the vaginal tract are critical for vaginal and reproductive health.
However, the regulation of these microorganisms is not well understood. Therefore, we …

Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women

J Ravel, P Gajer, Z Abdo… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The means by which vaginal microbiomes help prevent urogenital diseases in women and
maintain health are poorly understood. To gain insight into this, the vaginal bacterial …

Antimicrobial and immune modulatory effects of lactic acid and short chain fatty acids produced by vaginal microbiota associated with eubiosis and bacterial vaginosis

M Aldunate, D Srbinovski, AC Hearps… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Lactic acid and short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) produced by vaginal microbiota have
reported antimicrobial and immune modulatory activities indicating their potential as …

Bacterial communities in women with bacterial vaginosis: high resolution phylogenetic analyses reveal relationships of microbiota to clinical criteria

S Srinivasan, NG Hoffman, MT Morgan, FA Matsen… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a common condition that is associated with
numerous adverse health outcomes and is characterized by poorly understood changes in …

The NIH human microbiome project

J Peterson, S Garges, M Giovanni, P McInnes… - Genome …, 2009 - genome.cshlp.org
The Human Microbiome Project (HMP), funded as an initiative of the NIH Roadmap for
Biomedical Research (http://nihroadmap. nih. gov), is a multi-component community …