title: Translating the vaginal microbiome: gaps and challenges.
abstract: Management, manipulation, and restoration of a robust vaginal microbiota has the potential to vastly improve women's health and disease prevention. However, a systems level understanding of how the vaginal microbiota is associated with gynecologic and reproductive health is still needed to develop effective interventional strategies.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. jravel@som.umaryland.edu.|Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. jravel@som.umaryland.edu.
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ravel
authors.affiliation: Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.|Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Brotman
mesh_terms: D060467:Disease Resistance; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D064307:Microbiota; D060728:Reproductive Health; D014621:Vagina / Q000382:microbiology*; D016387:Women's Health