Vaginal microbiome profiles of pregnant women in Korea using a 16S metagenomics approach.
Young-Ah YouEun Jin KwonSuk-Joo ChoiHan-Sung HwangSae-Kyung ChoiSeung Mi LeeYoung Ju KimPublished in: American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) (2019)
This result suggests that Lactobacillus abundance-based classification of vaginal fluid may reveal the microbiome associated with PTB. Further studies are needed to investigate the mechanism underlying the link between the microbiome and PTB.