The matter of the reproductive microbiome

Sam Schoenmakers1, Regine Steegers-Theunissen1, Marijke Faas2

  • 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Obstetric Medicine
|September 17, 2019
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