Background: Culture-independent techniques have made it possible to expand the knowledge about the composition of bacterial communities present in the healthy uterus and their role in health and disea
The goal of this study was to characterize the bull penile microbiome as there are no known male urogential microbiome studies in domestic species. It has been established that vaginal and uterine mic
An extra-species model (donkey-to- and horse-to-mare) was designed to determine the effects of the male seminal microbiome on the mare uterine microbiome. The semen and uterine microbiomes were analyz
Bacterial contamination of bull semen can have a negative effect on semen quality parameters as well as an impact on the transmission of opportunistic and pathogen bacteria from clinically healthy bul
