Vaginal colonisation by probiotic lactobacilli and clinical outcome in women conventionally treated for bacterial vaginosis and yeast infection

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pendharkar, Sonal ^a   Brandsborg, Erik ^b   Hammarström, Lennart ^a   Marcotte, Harold ^a   Larsson, Per Göran ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Bifodan AS   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; Clindamycin; Fluconazole; Lactobacilli; Metronidazole; Probiotic; Vulvovaginal candidiasis

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; PILOT STUDY; RASH; RELAPSE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINITIS; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG COMBINATION; HETEROZYGOTE; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CARRIER STATE; CLINDAMYCIN; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBIOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934755114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-0971-3     Document Type: Article

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