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Bacterial Vaginosis: A New Understanding of Transmission
That fishy smell? It’s bacterial vaginosis. A new study shows it’s an STI, and male partners should be treated to stop the ...
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Is Your Irritated Vagina a Yeast Infection or Bacterial Vaginosis? Here’s How to Tell
commonly Gardnerella vaginalis. To be clear, every vagina has some amount of yeast and anaerobic bacteria living in there on a good day; you’ll only wind up with a problem when the numbers of either ...
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Q&A: Understanding the link between the vaginal microbiome, preterm birth
The March of Dimes awarded a grant to further research into profiling the vaginal microbiome and investigate its connection ...
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Yeast infection vs bacterial vaginosis: Know the differences between the vaginal infections
In BV, there is a decrease in the number of lactobacilli and an overgrowth of other types of bacteria, such as Gardnerella ...
The Scientist4mon
Modeling the Human Cervix on a USB-Sized Chip
While they observed that cells in the channels remained intact, the addition of Gardnerella vaginalis, a bacterium associated with BV, compromised cells’ integrity and altered the production and ...
Medical Dialogues6d
Vaginal dysbiosis increases risk of endometrial polyp recurrence after hysteroscopic polypectomy: Study
Preoperative vaginal dysbiosis has been identified as an independent risk factor for the recurrence of endometrial polyps ...