Bacterial profiles of the oral, vaginal, and rectal mucosa and colostrum of periparturient sows

Virpi Piirainen; Emilia König; Aleksi Husso; Mari Heinonen; Antti Iivanainen; Tiina Pessa-Morikawa; Mikael Niku

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0317513

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Bacterial profiles of the oral, vaginal, and rectal mucosa and colostrum of periparturient sows

Virpi Piirainen,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Production Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Emilia König,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Production Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2164-1400

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Aleksi Husso,

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

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7644-2759

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Mari Heinonen,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Production Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Research Centre for Animal Welfare, Department of Production Animal Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5732-0692

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Antti Iivanainen,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1002-3225

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Tiina Pessa-Morikawa ,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tiina.pessa-morikawa@helsinki.fi

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5992-8442

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Mikael Niku

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1087-9859

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Bacterial profiles of the oral, vaginal, and rectal mucosa and colostrum of periparturient sows

Virpi Piirainen,
Emilia König,
Aleksi Husso,
Mari Heinonen,
Antti Iivanainen,
Tiina Pessa-Morikawa,
Mikael Niku

Published: February 12, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317513

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