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DOI: 10.24075/brsmu.2026.039
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Can autochthonous endometrial microbiota be detected by transcervical sampling?

Zornikov DL1 , Simarzina VM1 , Islamidi DK1,2 , Belykh NS1 , Kornilov DO1 , Abakumova EI2 , Khayutin LV2 , Plotko EE2 , Voroshilina ES1,2
About authors

1 Ural State Medical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2 Medical Center “Garmonia”, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Danila L. Zornikov
Klyuchevskaya, 17, Yekaterinburg, 620109, Russia; moc.liamg@ldvokinroz

About paper

Acknowledgments: the authors thank V. N. Khayutin, General Director of the Harmony Medical Center (Yekaterinburg), for the opportunity to conduct the study at the center.

Author contribution: Zornikov DL — conceptualization, visualization, formal analysis, writing — manuscript preparation; Simarzina VM — laboratory investigations, interpretation of laboratory results, writing — review and editing; Islamidi DK — participant enrollment, formation of clinical groups, collection of biomaterial, anamnestic and clinical data, analysis and interpretation of clinical data, writing — review and editing; Belykh NS — participant enrollment, collection of biomaterial, anamnestic and clinical data; Kornilov DO — laboratory investigations, interpretation of laboratory results, writing — review and editing; Abakumova EI — participant enrollment, collection of anamnestic and clinical data; Khayutin LV — collection of anamnestic and clinical data, writing — review and editing; Plotko EE — project administration, writing — review and editing; Voroshilina ES — supervision, study design, data analysis and interpretation, writing — review and editing.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Ural State Medical University (Protocol No. 1 dated January 24, 2020; Protocol No. 4 dated May 26, 2023). Informed consent was obtained from all study participants.

Received: 2026-05-28 Accepted: 2026-06-14 Published online: 2026-07-05
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