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Previously, the urinary microbiome has only been compared to proximal sites; however, several species that inhabit the asymptomatic female urinary tract are also found in distant communities, e.g.,\n                    <jats:italic>Streptococcus mitis<\/jats:italic>\n                    , also found in the oral cavity, and\n                    <jats:italic>Staphylococcus epidermidis<\/jats:italic>\n                    , also found in the nares. This prompted our investigation of communities of the oral cavity, nares, and urinary tract, collected from the same individual. In this study, we profiled the oral, nasal, and urinary microbiomes of 26 self-identified \u201chealthy\u201d female participants using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. The urinary microbiome was found to be distinct from the oral and nasal communities. Nevertheless,\n                    <jats:italic>Actinomyces<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Corynebacterium<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Escherichia<\/jats:italic>\n                    +\n                    <jats:italic>Shigella<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Lawsonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Staphylococcus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>Streptococcus<\/jats:italic>\n                    were found to be present within communities of all three anatomical sites. Genera predominant within the oral and nasal communities were often low-abundant taxa within the urinary microbiome. To date, comparisons of the urinary microbiome to microbiomes of other anatomical sites is limited. The distinction between the urinary microbiome and that of the more distant oral and nasal site highlights the role that the environment plays in shaping these communities.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/frmbi.2026.1691965","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,9]],"date-time":"2026-03-09T06:45:49Z","timestamp":1773038749000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Shared taxa but distinct communities: within-individual comparisons of oral, nasal, and urinary microbiomes in asymptomatic \u201chealthy\u201d females"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Sandra","family":"Jablonska","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago","place":["Chicago, IL, United States"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alex","family":"Kula","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago","place":["Chicago, IL, United States"]},{"name":"Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago","place":["Chicago, IL, United States"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Catherine","family":"Putonti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago","place":["Chicago, IL, United States"]},{"name":"Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago","place":["Chicago, IL, United States"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1378","DOI":"10.1111\/febs.17235","article-title":"Interconnected microbiomes-insights and innovations in female urogenital health","volume":"292","author":"Al","year":"2025","journal-title":"FEBS J."},{"key":"B2","article-title":"FastQC: A quality control tool for high throughput sequence data","author":"Andrews","year":"2010"},{"key":"B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"840","DOI":"10.1186\/s12864-025-11973-4","article-title":"Streptococcus anginosus of the urogenital tract: evidence of the same strain across anatomical sites of the same females","volume":"26","author":"Appleberry","year":"2025","journal-title":"BMC Genomics"},{"key":"B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"001267","DOI":"10.1099\/mgen.0.001267","article-title":"Evidence of Lactobacillus strains shared between the female urinary and vaginal microbiota","volume":"10","author":"Atkins","year":"2024","journal-title":"Microb. 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