De-Discovery of the Placenta Microbiome

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Editorial

Frederic D Bushman. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Mar.

. 2019 Mar;220(3):213-214.

doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2018.11.1093.

¹ Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. Electronic address: bushman@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

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Does the human placenta delivered at term have a microbiota? Results of cultivation, quantitative real-time PCR, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and metagenomics.
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