A prospective cohort study examining the association between the periconceptual vaginal microbiota and first-trimester miscarriage in Kenyan women.
R Scott McClellandErica M LokkenJohn KinuthiaSujatha SrinivasanBarbra A RichardsonWalter JaokoSophia LannonAnne PuleiTina L FiedlerMatthew M MunchSean ProllGrace John-StewartDavid N FredricksPublished in: Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology (2024)
The primary analyses in this study demonstrated no association between periconceptual or first-trimester vaginal microbiota and miscarriage. Exploratory analyses showing strong associations between first-trimester detection of Mobiluncus mulieris and Mageeibacillus indolicus and early first-trimester miscarriage suggest the need for future studies to determine if these findings are reproducible.