Characteristics of cervicovaginal microflora at different cervical maturity during late pregnancy: A nested case-control study

• Ping Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory for Cell Fate Regulation and Diseases, GMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Tingting Hu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory for Cell Fate Regulation and Diseases, GMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Zheng Zheng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Robert E. Garfield,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

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• Jinying Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yangjinying1981@126.com

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Longgang District Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital of Shenzhen City (Longgang Maternity and Child Institute of Shantou University Medical College), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6803-7470

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