Bringing together the communities working in the environmental, animal and biomedical microbiome arenas, Microbiome is a forum for presenting the very latest ...| BioMed Central
Background A dominance of non-iners Lactobacillus species in the vaginal microbiome is optimal and strongly associated with gynecological and obstetric health, while the presence of diverse obligate or facultative anaerobic bacteria and a paucity in Lactobacillus species, similar to communities found in bacterial vaginosis (BV), is considered non-optimal and associated with adverse health outcomes. Various therapeutic strategies are being explored to modulate the composition of the vaginal mi...| BioMed Central