Vaginal microbiota of adolescents and their mothers: A preliminary study of vertical transmission and persistence.

Indeed, we also found a strong trend toward greater mother-daughter vaginal microbiota similarity (lower within pair θ YC distances) if the mother was in her reproductive stage rather than postmenopausal (Wilcoxon test p-value=0.07) ( Supplemental Figure 2 ). 3.4 Lactobacillus crispatus isolates from mother/daughter pair I have highly similar genome sequences The birth mode-dependent similarity of the vaginal microbiotas of mothers and their daughters suggested that vaginal bacteria could be transmitted between generations at birth and persist into adolescence.

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