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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.15.4.03</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Endometrial Microbiome and Women’s Reproductive Health – Review of the Problem Endometrial Microbiome and Reproductive Health</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Bodurska</surname>
                        <given-names>Tatyana</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
						<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Konova</surname>
                        <given-names>Emiliana</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>
				
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Pachkova</surname>
                        <given-names>Svetlana</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Yordanov</surname>
                        <given-names>Angel</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/>
                </contrib>
				
				
								            		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
          <aff id="aff-1">Medical Center, Clinical Institute for Reproductive Medicine, Bul Skobelev 20, 5800 Pleven, Bulgaria.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-2">Center for Reproductive Health, Medical University Pleven, Sv. Kliment Ohridski Str. 5800 Pleven, Bulgaria.</aff>
			  <aff id="aff-3">Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Medical University Pleven, Bul. Georgi Kochev 8A, Pleven, Bulgaria.</aff>
			 			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-10-07">
                <day>07</day>
				<month>10</month>
                <year>2021</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>15</volume>
            <issue>4</issue>
            <fpage>1727</fpage>
            <lpage>1734</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2021 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
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                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            </permissions>
            <self-uri xlink:href="https://microbiologyjournal.org/endometrial-microbiome-and-womens-reproductive-health-review-of-the-problem-endometrial-microbiome-and-reproductive-health/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Currently, unlike in the past, the endometrial cavity is not considered to be sterile. The endometrium is supposed to be dominated by Lactobacilli, but also their deficiency can be found in the reproductive tract of asymptomatic healthy women. Sometimes the endometrial microbiome is dominated by various pathological microorganisms, and this can lead to various conditions as chronic endometritis, chorioamnionitis and preterm birth. Their presence causes uterine inflammation and infection, release of pro-inflammatory molecules, uterine contractions, disruption of cervical barrier, premature rupture of membranes. Uterine dysbiosis is associated with recurrent implantation failure and recurrent miscarriages. As the microbiome is important for maintaining immunological homeostasis  at the level of gastrointestinal tract  Lactobacilli may play a similar function at the level of uterus. The lactobacillus-dominated uterine microbiome is of great importance for maintaining a hostile uterine microenvironment, embryo implantation, early pregnancy development and normal pregnancy outcome.</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Lactobacillus</kwd>
        <kwd>assisted reproductive techniques</kwd>
		<kwd>pregnancy</kwd>
		<kwd>endometritis</kwd>
        <kwd>preeclapsia</kwd>
		<kwd>chorioamnionits</kwd>
			</kwd-group>
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