Due to the increasing demand for clinical testing of infectious diseases at point-of-care, global market claims alternatives rapid diagnosis tools such as disposable biosensors, avoiding need specialized laboratories and skilled personnel. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is an disease that commonly affects reproductive-age women predisposes infection sexually transmitted diseases. Especially in asympt...

Bacterial vaginosis is the foremost cause of abnormal vaginal discharge in women of reproductive age. It is associated with adverse pregnancy outcome[1-5], pelvic inflammatory disease[5,6], chorioamnionitis[2,5,7], endometritis[8] and increased susceptibility to Human Immunodeficiency Virus[9]. Routine diagnostic procedures require laboratory expertise. As the prevalence is high [10], patients ...

BACKGROUND Bacterial vaginosis, candidal, trichomonal and Gonococcal vaginal infections are a major health problems associated with gynecologic complications and increase in replication, shedding and transmission of HIV and other STIs in women of reproductive age. The study aimed at determining the prevalence of common vaginal infections and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of aerobic bact...

BACKGROUND Fastidious bacteria have been associated with bacterial vaginosis (BV) using PCR methods. We assessed the prevalence of these bacteria in HIV-1 infected women and their relationship with vaginal pH and shedding of HIV-1 RNA. METHODS 64 cervicovaginal lavage (CVL) samples were collected from 51 women. Vaginal microbiota were characterized using 8 bacterium-specific quantitative PCR ...

Money continues to be spent on observational studies attempting to link bacterial vaginosis (BV) to preterm delivery. Despite considerable financial investment, the results are at best confusing. Two recent studies address whether using oral metronidazole to treat pregnant women with BV reduces the incidence of preterm delivery. A well-conceived study by McDonald et al. examined treatment not o...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of the three most common causes of acute vulvovaginal symptoms (bacterial vaginosis, candidiasis vaginitis, and trichomoniasis vaginalis) using a traditional, standardized clinical diagnostic protocol compared with a DNA probe laboratory standard. METHODS This prospective clinical comparative study had a sample of 535 active-duty Un...

INTRODUCTION Bacterial vaginosis is of clinical interest because of its possible causal relationship with complications during pregnancy, postpartum, and complications after surgery. METHODS Gram stain for clue cells and Gardnerella vaginalis culture methods were evaluated retrospectively in a microbiological medical laboratory for the first half of 2015. We were interested in the proportion ...