Profiling microbial communities in idiopathic granulomatous mastitis

• Main Authors: Ong, Seeu Si, Xu, Jia, Sim, Choon Kiat, Khng, Alexis Jiaying, Ho, Peh Joo, Kwan, Philip Kam Weng, Ravikrishnan, Aarthi, Tan, Benita Kiat-Tee, Tan, Qing Ting, Tan, Ern Yu, Tan, Su-Ming, Putti, Thomas Choudary, Lim, Swee Ho, Tang, Serene Ee Ling, Nagarajan, Niranjan, Karnani, Neerja, Li, Jingmei, Hartman, Mikael
• 其他作者: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2023
• 主題: Science::Medicine; Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis; Metagenomic Sequencing
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169570
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is a rare and benign inflammatory breast disease with ambiguous aetiology. Contrastingly, lactational mastitis (LM) is commonly diagnosed in breastfeeding women. To investigate IGM aetiology, we profiled the microbial flora of pus and skin in patients with IGM...