OBJECTIVE Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is common in sexually active women, and in a large proportion the underlying aetiology is unknown. We evaluated partner circumcision status as a potential risk and hypothesised that women with uncircumcised partners were at increased risk for BV. METHODS Retrospective audit of a partner study (272 heterosexual couples) conducted in Baltimore between 1990 and...

Bee Venom (BV) has long been used in Korea to relieve pain symptoms and to treat inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis. The underlying mechanisms of the anti-inflammatory and analgesic actions of BV have been proved to some extent. Additionally, recent clinical and experimental studies have demonstrated that BV and BV-derived active components are applicable to a wide range of imm...

A novel approach for multiscale image processing based on integro-differential equations (IDEs) was proposed in [E. Tadmor and P. Athavale, Inverse Probl. Imaging, 3 (2009), pp. 693–710]. These IDEs, which stem naturally from multiscale (BV,L) hierarchical decompositions, yield inverse scale representations of images in the sense that the BV -dual norms of their residuals are inversely proporti...

There is a health disparity for both bacterial vaginosis (BV) and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in African American women that may be linked. The evidence that BV predisposes women to higher risk for HIV infection is well documented. The underlying mechanisms to support the epidemiological connections will require further investigations. This review explores the risk fac...

In this work, we compare two models that were proposed to improve the well-known model of Rudin, Osher, and Fatemi [Phys. D, 60 (1992), pp. 259–268]. The first one, proposed by Meyer [Oscillating Patterns in Image Processing and in Some Nonlinear Evolution Equations. The Fifteenth Dean Jacqueline B. Lewis Memorial Lectures, Univ. Lecture Ser. 22, AMS, Providence, RI, 2001], is the BV −G model, ...

While bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a polymicrobial syndrome, Mobiluncus spp. are the organisms most highly associated with this condition. It is possible that serum antibody to Mobiluncus spp. could be used as a serological marker for BV. Using immunofluorescence techniques, we studied the prevalence of antibody to M. curtisii among three cohorts-pregnant women, pediatric patients, and sexually ...

The use of simian agent 8 (SA8) as an antigen for B virus (BV) antibody detection was evaluated in cynomolgus monkeys. Seventy-two sera judged as positive using BV antigen were all positive when the SA8 antigen was used. Out of 28 BV-negative sera 2 were positive against the SA8 antigen and one serum was classified as indeterminate. The present data indicates that detection of BV antibody can b...

BACKGROUND Bacterial vaginosis (BV) increases the risk of spontaneous preterm deliveries (PD) in developed countries. Its prevalence varies with ethnicity, socioeconomic conditions and gestational age. Aerobic vaginitis (AV) has also been implicated with spontaneous PD. The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence of asymptomatic BV, the accuracy of vaginal pH level to predict BV and to e...

BACKGROUND Bacterial vaginosis (BV) has been found to be associated with HIV acquisition and transmission. This is suggested to be due to higher HIV RNA levels in cervicovaginal fluids in women living with HIV (WLWH) with BV, as bacteria associated with BV may induce viral replication and shedding in the genital tract despite undetectable HIV RNA plasma viral load. We examined the prevalence an...