Deep microbial analysis of multiple placentas shows no evidence for a placental microbiome.
A A KupermanA ZimmermanS HamadiaO ZivV GurevichB FichtmanN GavertR StraussmanH RechnitzerM BarzilayS ShvalbJ BornsteinI Ben-ShacharS YagelI HavivOmry KorenPublished in: BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology (2019)
Using several microbiological and molecular methods in parallel, we found no compelling evidence of bacteria in human and mouse placentas.