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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38093481
The human vaginal microbiome (HVM) is crucial to women’s reproductive health, with bacterial vaginosis (BV) being associated with increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases and adverse pregnancy outcomes. This study, published in Integrative Biology, investigates the ecological roles of vaginal bacteria using a new high-throughput technology based on microdroplet co-cultivation. The authors demonstrate that this technology can recapitulate previous findings showing that Lactobacillus jensenii inhibits the growth of Gardnerella vaginalis, a bacterium associated with BV. They also show that the technology can be generalized to other bacterial species, such as Enterococcus faecalis. The study suggests that microdroplet co-cultivation is an effective way to study inter-species interactions in microbial ecosystems.