Vaginal microbiome: rethinking health and disease.

By Bing Ma, Larry J. Forney, Jacques Ravel. Annual Review of Microbiology, 2012

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Mother-to-Infant Microbial Transmission from Different Body Sites Shapes the Developing Infant Gut Microbiome (2018, background): “5 (Ma et al., 2012), and the infant gut being near neutral (Evans et al.”
The composition and stability of the vaginal microbiota of normal pregnant women is different from that of non-pregnant women (2014, background): “Background The human vagina and the bacterial communities that reside therein represent a finely balanced mutualistic association [1].”
How bacterial pathogens colonize their hosts and invade deeper tissues. (2015, background): “Introduction 52 53 The human body harbours a large number of bacteria but their localisation in healthy 54 individuals is normally restricted to certain body areas such as the skin, the mucosae of buccal 55 and nasal cavities, vagina and, most importantly, the gastrointestinal tract [1],[2],[3],[4],”
The microbiome and cancer (2018, background): “Bacteria, fungi and viruses are widely present on epithelia, including general and specialized epidermal surfaces [1], the nares, the respiratory tree [2,3], the ductal system of exocrine organs, including the breast [4], the vagina [5], and the gastrointestinal (GI) tract [6].”