selected publications
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academic article
- The effect of vaginal microbial communities on colonization by Staphylococcus aureus with the gene for toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1): a case-control study. Pathogens and Disease. 76. 2018
- Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome. Nature. 486:207-214. 2012
- Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 Genes, 640 Taxa. American Journal of Botany. 98:704-730. 2011
- Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108:4680-4687. 2011
- The vaginal bacterial communities of Japanese women resemble those of women in other racial groups. FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology. 58:169-181. 2010
- Comparison of Self-Collected and Physician-Collected Vaginal Swabs for Microbiome Analysis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 48:1741-1748. 2010
- Differences in the composition of vaginal microbial communities found in healthy Caucasian and black women.. The ISME (International Society for Microbial Ecology) Journal. 1:121-133. 2007
- Preliminary characterization of the normal microbiota of the human vulva using cultivation-independent methods. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 56:271-276. 2007
- Characterization of microbial communities found in the human vagina by analysis of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms of 16S rRNA genes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71:8729-8737. 2005
- Characterization of vaginal microbial communities in adult healthy women using cultivation-independent methods. Microbiology. 150:2565-2573. 2004