The absence of culturable bacteria from at term placentae from HIV-negative and positive women argues against a placental unique microbiota

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¹ Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia - jose.fiore@unifg.it.
² Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy - jose.fiore@unifg.it.
³ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
⁴ Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
⁵ Department of Biochemistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

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Jose R Fiore et al. Minerva Ginecol. 2019 Dec.

. 2019 Dec;71(6):476-477.

doi: 10.23736/S0026-4784.19.04474-5. Epub 2019 Nov 13.

¹ Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia - jose.fiore@unifg.it.
² Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy - jose.fiore@unifg.it.
³ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
⁴ Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
⁵ Department of Biochemistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

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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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