Marilen Benner

MICROBIOTA AND ENDOMETRIAL HEALTH 169 6 METHODS PubMed and Google Scholar were searched for articles in English indexed from January 1 st , 2008 to March 1 st , 2018 for “16S rRNA”, “uterus” and related search terms (Supplementary Figure I) to assess available evidence on uterine microbiome analysis. Studies on the upper female genital tract were investigated regarding data on specifically the uterine compartment. A manual search of the references within the resulting articles was performed. Studies on microbiota of other body sites were additionally assessed.