The ReceptIVFity cohort study protocol to validate the urogenital microbiome as predictor for IVF or IVF/ICSI outcome

• Main Authors: Rivka Koedooder (Author), Martin Singer (Author), Sam Schoenmakers (Author), Paul Hendrik Maria Savelkoul (Author), Servaas Antonie Morré (Author), Jonathan Dennis de Jonge (Author), Linda Poort (Author), Willem-Jan Simon Stephanus Cuypers (Author), Andries Edward Budding (Author), Joop Stephanus Elisabeth Laven (Author), ReceptIVFity study group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background During the last decade, research has shown that besides the known predictive factors, such as duration of subfertility, a women's age, the body mass index, also the microbiome might affect fertility. Micro-organisms together with their genetic information and the milieu in w...