{"id":184110,"date":"2010-01-15T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2010-01-15T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T14:00:25","slug":"ncbi-rofl-did-you-hear-about-the-penis-microbiome-it%e2%80%99s-got-lots-of-cocci-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/184110","title":{"rendered":"NCBI ROFL: Did you hear about the penis microbiome? It\u2019s got lots of cocci. | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The effects of circumcision on the penis microbiome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;METHODOLOGY\/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We assessed the penile (coronal sulci) microbiota in 12 HIV-negative Ugandan men before and after circumcision&#8230; &#8230;Among the 42 unique bacterial families identified, Pseudomonadaceae and Oxalobactericeae were the most abundant irrespective of circumcision status. Circumcision was associated with a significant change in the overall microbiota (PerMANOVA p = 0.007) and with a significant decrease in putative anaerobic bacterial families (Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test p = 0.014)&#8230;. &#8230;[The] reduction in putative anaerobic bacteria after circumcision may play a role in protection from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20066050\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5828\" title=\"penisome\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/01\/penisome.jpg\" alt=\"penisome\" width=\"449\" height=\"261\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next they should sequence the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/11\/27\/should-the-definition-of-micropenis-vary-according-to-ethnicity\/\">micropenis<\/a> microbiome.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Matt for today&#8217;s ROFL!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/RCwqq8JqB68\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effects of circumcision on the penis microbiome. &#8220;METHODOLOGY\/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We assessed the penile (coronal sulci) microbiota in 12 HIV-negative Ugandan men before and after circumcision&#8230; &#8230;Among the 42 unique bacterial families identified, Pseudomonadaceae and Oxalobactericeae were the most abundant irrespective of circumcision status. Circumcision was associated with a significant change in the overall microbiota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}