Bacterial vaginosis is the most prevalent disease of the female genital tract. In spite of various effective antibiotics in the treatment of bacterial vaginosis, its high relapse rate is a common problem. Bacterial species causing bacterial vaginosis are generally unable to be cultured by conventional methods. It is impractical and inadequate to use culture methods to guide initial treatment. G...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether bacterial vaginosis or chlamydial infection before 10 weeks' gestation is associated with miscarriage before 16 weeks. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING 32 general practices and five family planning clinics in south London. PARTICIPANTS 1216 pregnant women, mean age 31, presenting before 10 weeks' gestation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Prevalence of miscarri...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the role of Mycoplasma hominis as a vaginal pathogen. DESIGN Prospective study comprising detailed history, clinical examination, sexually transmitted infection (STI) and bacterial vaginosis screen, vaginal swabs for mycoplasmas and other organisms, follow up of bacterial vaginosis patients, and analysis of results using SPSS package. SETTING Genitourinary medicine cli...

We read with interest the article by Tam et al. claiming that Gram stain has a better sensitivity than Amsel's criteria for the detection of bacterial vaginosis during pregnancy ("Gram stain method shows better sensitivity than clinical criteria for detection of bacterial vaginosis in surveillance of pregnant, low-income women in a clinical setting," 1998;6:204-208). They argue that the method ...

background: due to high occurrence of bacterial vaginosis among women and its resistance to drug we need a new treatment regimen for improving the efficacy of present treatments. the objective of this study was to investigate the comparison between metronidazole and the combination of metronidazole and probiotic on the treatment of bacterial vaginosis. methods: this clinical-experimental study ...

BACKGROUND Bacterial vaginosis is associated with increased transmission of sexually transmitted infections, preterm labor, post-surgical infections, and endometritis. Current treatment for symptomatic bacterial vaginosis includes antibiotics, such as metronidazole, which are 70-80 % effective at one month after treatment and result in high recurrence rates and secondary candida infections. Int...

To investigate if vaginal application of dequalinium chloride (DQC, Fluomizin®) is as effective as vaginal clindamycin (CLM) in the treatment of bacterial vaginosis (BV). WEISSENBACHER, Ernst Rainer, et al. A comparison of dequalinium chloride vaginal tablets (Fluomizin®) and clindamycin vaginal cream in the treatment of bacterial vaginosis: a single-blind, randomized clinical trial of efficacy...

We studied the vaginal microflora of 73 postmenopausal women who had never received estrogen replacement therapy. The median age of these women was 67 years, and none of them had bacterial vaginosis. Lactobacilli were detected in 36 (49%) of these women at a mean concentration of 10(5.7) cfu/g of vaginal fluid. H2O2-producing lactobacilli were recovered from 38% of the women. Some of the other ...