Jorge Rojas-Vargas

Keywords transgender transmasculine vaginal microbiota local inflammation gender-affirming care testosterone therapy 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing microbiome prevotella Research topic(s) CP: microbiology Introduction Recent estimates from UCLA’s School of Law Williams Institute reveal that approximately 0.5% of the US adults, i.e., more than 1.3 million individuals, identify as transgender or gender diverse (referred to as transgender individuals herein), signifying that their gender...

Keywords microbiota gender-affirming care transgender health sexual health vaginoplasty neovagina Research topic(s) CP: microbiology Introduction In 2021, more than 100,000 Canadian adults (0.33%) identified as transgender or non-binary, meaning that their gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth.1 Transfeminine people are a group of individuals who were assigned male at birth but do not have a masculine gender identity.

Abstract Databases of genes and enzymes involved in hydrocarbon degradation have been previously reported. However, these databases specialize on only a specific group of hydrocarbons and/or are constructed partly based on enzyme sequences with putative functions indicated by in silico research, with no experimental evidence.