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SUBMITTER: Onywera H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6475661 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Onywera Harris H Williamson Anna-Lise AL Mbulawa Zizipho Z A ZZA Coetzee David D Meiring Tracy L TL
Papillomavirus research (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 20190413
In this study we examined potential associations of HPV infection with the cervical microbiota. Cervical samples were collected from 87 HIV-seronegative reproductive-age Black South African women. Microbiota were characterized by Illumina sequencing of the V3-V4 hypervariable regions of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. Thirty seven (42.5%) and 30 (34.5%) of the women had prevalent HPV and high-risk (HR)-HPV, respectively. Only 23 women (26.4%) had cervical microbiota dominated by a single Lactobacil ...[more]