{"id":5435,"date":"2010-01-15T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/ncbi-rofl-did-you-hear-about-the-penis-microbiome-it%e2%80%99s-got-lots-of-cocci-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T14:00:25","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:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/ncbi-rofl-did-you-hear-about-the-penis-microbiome-it%e2%80%99s-got-lots-of-cocci-discoblog.php","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><p>&ldquo;METHODOLOGY\/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We assessed the penile (coronal sulci) microbiota in 12 HIV-negative Ugandan men before and after circumcision&hellip; &hellip;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)&hellip;. &hellip;[The] reduction in putative anaerobic bacteria after circumcision may play a role in protection from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.&rdquo;<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20066050\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5828\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/57939_penisome.jpg\" alt=\"penisome\" width=\"449\" height=\"261\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Next they should sequence the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/11\/27\/should-the-definition-of-micropenis-vary-according-to-ethnicity\/\">micropenis<\/a> microbiome.<\/p><p><em>Thanks to Matt for today&rsquo;s ROFL!<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yWmV2TJyU3HkHjycdXlLyG12Oe8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/57939_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yWmV2TJyU3HkHjycdXlLyG12Oe8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/57939_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/57939_RCwqq8JqB68\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effects of circumcision on the penis microbiome.&ldquo;METHODOLOGY\/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We assessed the penile (coronal sulci) microbiota in 12 HIV-negative Ugandan men before and after circumcision&hellip; &hellip;Among the 42 unique bacterial families identified, Pseudomonadaceae and Oxalobactericeae were the most abundant irrespective &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/ncbi-rofl-did-you-hear-about-the-penis-microbiome-it%e2%80%99s-got-lots-of-cocci-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}