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The burden of bacterial vaginosis: women's experience of the physical, emotional, sexual and social impact of living with recurrent bacterial vaginosis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Bacterial vaginosis is a common vaginal infection, causing an abnormal vaginal discharge and/or odour in up to 50% of sufferers. Recurrence is common following recommended treatment.
Jade E Bilardi, Sandra Walker, Meredith Temple-Smith, Ruth McNair, Julie Mooney-Somers, Clare Bellhouse, Christopher K Fairley, Marcus Y Chen, Catriona Bradshaw   +8 more
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Quantification of Gardnerella vaginalis, Atopobium vaginae and Lactobacillus spp. in bacterial vaginosis

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021
Introduction: The aim of the study was to investigate prevalence of bacteria most frequently associated with bacterial vaginosis using Amsel’s criteria as well as to quantify these bacteria by real-time PCR and to explore the difference in their ...
Nedzib Numanovic, Snezana Ribis, Jelena Cukic, Dane Nenadic, Aleksandar Zivanovic, Predrag Sazdanovic, Violeta Ninkovic, Dejan Baskic   +7 more
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Bacterial Vaginosis

Annual Review of Medicine, 2000
▪ Abstract  Bacterial vaginosis represents a unique upheaval of the complex vaginal bacterial flora with disappearance of lactobacilli and overgrowth of Gardnerella vaginalis and resident anaerobic vaginal bacteria. Little progress has occurred in identifying causal factors, although the pathophysiology of this syndrome is better understood.
University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA ( host institution ), Wang, Jeff ( author )   +1 more
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EFFECT OF GIVING PROPOLIS EXTRACT TO PREGNANT WOMEN WITH BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS

Indonesian Midwifery and Health Sciences Journal, 2023
Background: Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) in pregnancy is caused by several physiological changes that disrupt the vaginal ecosystem, namely hormonal changes and vaginal flora.
Kiki Apnita Sari, Willy Sandhika, Gatut Hardianto   +2 more
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Bacterial vaginosis and antibacterial susceptibility pattern of asymptomatic urinary tract infection in pregnant women at a tertiary care hospital, Visakhaptn, India

Iranian Journal of Microbiology, 2020
Background and Objectives: The association between bacterial vaginosis and urinary tract infection (UTI) in pregnant women is at a greater risk comparatively than patients with bacterial vaginosis or UTI.
Appikatla Madhu Bhavana, Pilli Hema Prakash Kumari, Nitin Mohan, Vijayalakshmai Chandrasekhar, Payala Vijayalakshmi, Rongala Venkata Manasa   +5 more
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Dietary acid load, alternative healthy eating index score, and bacterial vaginosis: is there any association? A case-control study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background: Changing the dietary pattern may be an alternative treatment for bacterial vaginosis, the prevalent vaginal infection in women. Methods: One hundred and forty-three bacterial vaginosis-affected women diagnosed by Amsel criteria and 151 ...
Morvarid Noormohammadi, Ghazaleh Eslamian, Seyyedeh Neda Kazemi, Bahram Rashidkhani   +3 more
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Bacterial vaginosis [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 1991
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common of the vaginitides affecting women of reproductive age. It appears to be due to an alteration in the vaginal ecology by which Lactobacillus spp., the predominant organisms in the healthy vagina, are replaced by a mixed flora including Prevotella bivia, Prevotella disiens, Porphyromonas spp., Mobiluncus spp ...
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Bacterial Vaginosis Presence in Sexually Active Women in Tuzla Canton Area

Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2008
The goal of our research was to determine the presence of bacterial vaginosis in sexually active women in Tuzla Canton area. Diagnosis determination for bacterial vaginosis was conducted on the basis of three out of four internationally accepted criteria
Fatima Numanović, Mirsada Hukić, Merima Gegić, Mahmud Nukić, Zineta Delibegović, Selma Pašić, Elsada Cicko   +6 more
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Association between consumption of ultra-processed foods and bacterial vaginosis: a case-control study [PDF]

Majallah-i Zanān, Māmā̓ī va Nāzā̓ī-i Īrān, 2022
Introduction: Bacterial vaginosis is the most common vaginal infection in women of childbearing age. Identifying nutritional risk factors as a potential therapeutic target can be important.
Morvarid Noormohammadi, Ghazaleh Eslamian, Seyyedeh Neda Kazemi, Bahram Rashidkhani, Fatemeh Omidifar   +4 more
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BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS

International Journal of Clinical Practice, 1996
SUMMARY Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is an alteration of the vaginal flora, where the normally predominant lactobacilli are replaced by a cocktail of organisms including Gardnerella vaginalis and anaerobes. It presents with a grey, homogenous, offensive vaginal discharge that has a raised pH.
C J, Priestley, G R, Kinghorn
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