Strain-level heterogeneity in Gardnerella urinary tract persistence and pathogenesis in an in vivo model is consistent with comparative phylogenomic analyses

Authors

• Lokesh Kumar, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Sonia N Whang, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Deborah K Verges, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Robert F Potter, University of Pennsylvania
• Nicole M Gilbert, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Journal

BMC microbiology

Publication Date

2-21-2026

Volume

26

Issue

1

First Page

283

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1186/s12866-026-04838-7

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Kumar, L., Whang, S.N., Verges, D.K. et al. Strain-level heterogeneity in Gardnerella urinary tract persistence and pathogenesis in an in vivo model is consistent with comparative phylogenomic analyses. BMC Microbiol 26, 283 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-026-04838-7 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Recommended Citation

Kumar, Lokesh; Whang, Sonia N; Verges, Deborah K; Potter, Robert F; and Gilbert, Nicole M, "Strain-level heterogeneity in Gardnerella urinary tract persistence and pathogenesis in an in vivo model is consistent with comparative phylogenomic analyses." BMC microbiology. 26, 1. 283 (2026).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/7335

Department

ICTS (Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences)

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