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'If your husband calls, you have to go': understanding sexual agency among young married women in urban South India. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Early marriage is common in many developing countries, including India. Women who marry early have little power within their marriage, particularly in the sexual domain.
Edmeades, Jeffrey, Krishnan, Suneeta, Pande, Rohini Prabha, Rathod, Sujit, Suneeta Krishnan, Rohini Prabha Pande, Sujit Rathod, Falle, Tina Y, Jeffrey Edmeades, Tina Y. Falle   +9 more
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α-galactosylceramide-stimulated invariant natural killer T-cells play a protective role in murine vulvovaginal candidiasis by Candida albicans.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundVulvovaginal candidiasis is a common superficial candidiasis; however, a host's immunological mechanism against vaginal Candida infection remains unknown.ObjectivesIn this study, we aimed to elucidate the effect of iNKT cell activation on ...
Masahiro Abe, Yuki Kinjo, Sota Sadamoto, Minoru Shinozaki, Minoru Nagi, Kazutoshi Shibuya, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki   +6 more
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Study of vulvovaginal candidiasis in symptomatic women of reproductive age group attending tertiary care institute, Haryana province

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021
Background: Abnormal vaginal discharge results from a variety of infectious and noninfectious causes. Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is caused by the overgrowth of Candida species in the vagina and is characterized by itching, erythema and curd like ...
Gulnar K , Harman Multani
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Vulvovaginal candidiasis: species distribution of Candida and their antifungal susceptibility pattern

BMC Women's Health, 2018
Background Vulvovaginal candidiasis is a global issue of concern due to its association with economic costs, sexually transmitted infections, and ascending genital tract infection.
Adane Bitew, Yeshiwork Abebaw
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β-Glucan induces reactive oxygen species production in human neutrophils to improve the killing of Candida albicans and Candida glabrata isolates from vulvovaginal candidiasis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is among the most prevalent vaginal diseases. Candida albicans is still the most prevalent species associated with this pathology, however, the prevalence of other Candida species, such as C. glabrata, is increasing.
Patricia de Souza Bonfim-Mendonça, Bianca Altrão Ratti, Janine da Silva Ribeiro Godoy, Melyssa Negri, Nayara Cristina Alves de Lima, Adriana Fiorini, Elaine Hatanaka, Marcia Edilaine Lopes Consolaro, Sueli de Oliveira Silva, Terezinha Inez Estivalet Svidzinski   +9 more
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Modern concepts of etiopathogenesis and approaches to the treatment of recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis [PDF]

Vestnik Dermatologii i Venerologii, 2023
Vulvovaginal candidiasis is a widespread infection caused by Candida. The disease affects 7580% of women of reproductive age at least once during their lifetime, and 920% of them indicate the presence of three or more episodes of the disease during the ...
Margarita R. Rakhmatulina
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Investigation of the relationship between different Candida species and some risk factors affecting the incidence of Vulvovaginal Candidiasis [PDF]

Majallah-i Zanān, Māmā̓ī va Nāzā̓ī-i Īrān, 2019
Introduction: Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is a yeast infection and is one of the most common causes of women's referral to the physician. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between different Candida species and some risk factors
Seyedeh Sedigheh Hosseini, Ezzatallah Ghaemi, Farhad Niknejad, Hamidreza Joshaghani, Mina Rabiee, Fahimeh Azadi, Toktam Sharafi, Naemeh Javid, Mahboobeh Kabir, Saba Modi, Farideh Jafari, Zahra Kamizi   +11 more
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Effect of Continuous Care Model on Recurrence of Vulvovaginal Candidiasis Infection among Pregnant Women [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Background: Recurrent Vulvovaginal candidiasis infection is a global health problem for pregnant women associated with negative impacts on sexual and family lives that requires specific control practices.
Doaa Shehta Said, Walaa Khalaf Gooda, Ebtesam Ali Mohamed, Hanan Elzeblawy Hassan   +3 more
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Vaginal lipidomics of women with vulvovaginal candidiasis and cytolytic vaginosis: A non-targeted LC-MS pilot study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
OBJECTIVE:To characterize the lipid profile in vaginal discharge of women with vulvovaginal candidiasis, cytolytic vaginosis, or no vaginal infection or dysbiosis. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study.
José Marcos Sanches, Paulo César Giraldo, Rose Amaral, Marcos Nogueira Eberlin, Lygia Azevedo Marques, Isabel Migliorini, Marcel Nakahira, Michel Jan Marinus Bieleveld, Michelle Garcia Discacciati   +8 more
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Comparison of Single Dose Sertaconazole versus Three Dose Clotrimazole Regime in Treatment of Uncomplicated Vulvovaginal Candidiasis- A Prospective Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2019
Introduction: Vulvovaginal candidiasis is the second most common vaginitis following bacterial vaginitis amongst the reproductive age group with variable compliance to the treatment.
Katha Desai, Pradip Sambarey
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