2025 / 01

DOI: 10.24075/brsmu.2025.007
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Features of intrauterine microbiota in patients with endometrial polyps

Vanakova AI1,2, Dolgushina NV1,2, Denisov PA1, Goncharuk OD1, Muravieva VV1, Priputnevich TV1
About authors

1 Kulakov National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Moscow, Russia

2 Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Angelina I. Vanakova
Trubetskaya, 8/2, Moscow, 119991, Russia; moc.liamg@avokanavanilegna

About paper

Author contribution: Dolgushina NV — study concept, design; Vanakova AI — data acquisition, manuscript writing; Goncharuk OD, Muravieva VV — laboratory testing; Denisov PA — statistical analysis, visualization; Muravieva VV, Priputnevich TV — data editing.

Received: 2025-01-21 Accepted: 2025-02-10 Published online: 2025-02-24
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