Vaginal microbiota affects urinary tract infection risk in women with systemic lupus erythematosus: a pilot cross-sectional study from Thailand

• Prapaporn Pisitkun,
• Pintip Ngamjanyaporn,
• Porpon Rotjanapan,
• Aunyakant Jaroensukrungruang,
• Jittima Manonai,
• Vorthon Sawaswong,
• Prangwalai Chanchaem,
• Sunchai Payungporn

Affiliations

Prapaporn Pisitkun

Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Pintip Ngamjanyaporn

Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Porpon Rotjanapan

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Aunyakant Jaroensukrungruang

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Jittima Manonai

Division of Reproductive Health and Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Vorthon Sawaswong

Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Prangwalai Chanchaem

Research Unit of Systems Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sunchai Payungporn

Research Unit of Systems Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand