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DOI: 10.24075/brsmu.2020.064

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Semen microbiota: cluster analysis of real-time PCR data

Voroshilina ES1,2, Zornikov DL1, Ivanov AV3,4, Pochernikov DG5, Panacheva EA1,2
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1 Ural State Medical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2 Medical Center “Garmonia”, Yekaterinburg, Russia

3 Yeltsin Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

4 Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Yekaterinburg, Russia

5 Ivanovo State Medical Academy, Ivanovo, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Еkaterina S. Voroshilina
Furmanova, 30, Yekaterinburg, 620142; moc.liamg@anilihsorov

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Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Ural State Medical University, Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education under the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Protocol № 7 of September 20, 2019). All patients signed the informed written consent to participation in the study.

Acknowledgments: the authors would like to thank VN Khayutin, director of "Garmonia" Medical Center, for allowing them to conduct the study in the clinic's laboratory department.

Author contribution: Voroshilina ES — organization of the study, data analysis, article authoring; Zornikov DL — data analysis, article authoring; Ivanov AV — statistical processing, data analysis, article authoring; Pochernikov DG — patients’ clinical profile, clinical data collection, data analysis, article authoring; Panacheva EA — literature review, data analysis, conducting PCR tests, article authoring.

Received: 2020-09-21 Accepted: 2020-10-09 Published online: 2020-10-28
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