Bacterial Vaginosis

Studies from University of Occupational and Environmental Health Provide New Data on Bacterial Vaginosis

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 29th, 2011

2011 SEP 29 -- "Conventional diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis contains some controversial points. To understand accurately the relationship between clinical stages and the microbiotas, the intravaginal microbial flora was analyzed by the clone library method," scientists writing in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology report.

"Vaginal fluid samples from 31 patients were examined. Lactobacillary grade, Nugent score, culture-based method, and clone library analysis using the 16SrRNA gene sequencing were performed and were compared with each other. Patients were categorized by Lactobacillary grade as I (normal) (n = 6), II (intermediate) (n...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2011-09-29)

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