The complex microbiome from native semen to embryo culture environment in human in vitro fertilization procedure

Abstract Background Only a few microbial studies have conducted in IVF (in vitro fertilization), showing the high-variety bacterial contamination of IVF culture media to cause damage to or even loss of cultured oocytes and embryos. We aimed to determine the prevalence and counts of bacteria in IVF s...

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Main Authors: Jelena Štšepetova, Juliana Baranova, Jaak Simm, Ülle Parm, Tiiu Rööp, Sandra Sokmann, Paul Korrovits, Madis Jaagura, Karin Rosenstein, Andres Salumets, Reet Mändar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-01-01
Series:Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12958-019-0562-z