Sentences with phrase «risk bacterial communities»

Participants with high - risk bacterial communities, which are commonly found in the population of women studied, also had increased numbers of genital CD4 + T cells — white blood cells that are HIV's primary target.

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«Shifting bacterial communities in the stomach may influence cancer risk: Microbe changes linked with specific conditions could explain differences in risk and type of tumor.»

The findings add strength and precision to a growing body of evidence that the makeup of bacterial communities in the vagina — the vaginal microbiome — may increase or decrease HIV risk for women, depending on which bacteria are there.

Several studies have shown that BV is linked to a 1.5-fold increased risk of HIV, and a recent South African study showed that women with «high diversity» bacterial communities had a fourfold increase in their odds of acquiring HIV.

By identifying bacterial species and communities associated with HIV risk, we provide specific targets that may be leveraged to develop new preventive strategies and to improve the effectiveness of existing preventive measures.»

Ultimately, the team wanted to build a model that could use a mouse's starting gut bacterial community to predict that mouse's risk of infection.

However, the work does identify a new mechanism to potentially reduce vaginal inflammation and thus HIV risk by helping women with diverse bacterial communities in their genital tract become more Lactobacillus dominant.

Disturbances of the placenta's bacterial community may explain why some women give birth prematurely, and could also be one of the ways that a woman's diet affects her offspring's gut bacteria, and as a result the child's disease risk.