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Association between cigarette smoking and the vaginal microbiota: a pilot study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2014
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Title
Association between cigarette smoking and the vaginal microbiota: a pilot study
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-14-471
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Authors

Rebecca M Brotman, Xin He, Pawel Gajer, Doug Fadrosh, Eva Sharma, Emmanuel F Mongodin, Jacques Ravel, Elbert D Glover, Jessica M Rath

Abstract

Smoking has been identified in observational studies as a risk factor for bacterial vaginosis (BV), a condition defined in part by decimation of Lactobacillus spp. The anti-estrogenic effect of smoking and trace amounts of benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE) may predispose women to BV. BPDE increases bacteriophage induction in Lactobacillus spp. and is found in the vaginal secretions of smokers. We compared the vaginal microbiota between smokers and non-smokers and followed microbiota changes in a smoking cessation pilot study.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 208 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 11%
Researcher 23 11%
Student > Bachelor 22 10%
Student > Postgraduate 13 6%
Other 47 22%
Unknown 55 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 55 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 11%
Immunology and Microbiology 21 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 19 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 4%
Other 16 8%
Unknown 69 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 June 2023.
All research outputs
#1,139,651
of 25,556,408 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#266
of 8,653 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,337
of 247,983 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#6
of 158 outputs
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