OBJECTIVE To determine whether treatment of the sexual partners of women with chronic vulvovaginal candidiasis with oral ketoconazole can reduce the recurrence rate of candida vaginitis. DESIGN Single blind randomised study where all the women were treated with ketoconazole 400 mg daily for 7 days after an acute episode of candida vaginitis and half the male partners were treated with ketocon...

INTRODUCTION Vaginitis is one of the most common reasons women visit a gynecologist. Escherichia coli has been isolated from women with vaginitis, but its role as a vaginal infection aetiological agent is controversial. This study aimed to detect virulence genes and determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of E. coli strains isolated from monomicrobial and polymicrobial cultures collected fro...

Objective: In this study, we aimed to present the pathogens detected as vaginal infection agents isolated from swab samples in adult patients admitted Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics a private hospital Istanbul for three years retrospectively.Material Methods: Vaginal swabs non-pregnant outpatient clinics between 2016-2018 were included study. The transferred quickly laboratory after sa...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial and immunomodulatory action a probiotic composition Bacillus subtilis B. megatherium strains (UnicaUro, Sirion (Ukraine)) for experimental bacterial vaginitis. Methods. Experimental studies were conducted on female BALB/c mice; we used Staphylococcus aureus strain B-918 (ATCC 6538) induce vaginally introduced into mice before treatm...

Background: Aerobic vaginitis (AV) is caused by a displacement of the healthy vaginal Lactobacillus species with aerobic pathogens such as Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus that triggers a localized vaginal inflammatory immune response. AV if it is not diagnosed and treated early, especially during pregnancy can place the health of both the mother and the foetus ...

Patients: 387 women >18 years of age (mean age 34 y, 67% white) who had active, acute candida vaginitis (severity score >3), a positive result on microscopic examination of vaginal secretions, >4 episodes of candida vaginitis in the previous 12 months, and were clinically cured (severity score ,3) at 14 days after receiving 3 sequential doses of fluconazole, 150 mg, at 72 hour intervals. Exclus...

Nystatin is a well-established topical fungicidal agent in the treatment of vaginitis due to Candida albicans (Pace and Schantz, 1956; Chesney, 1956; Rohatiner, 1966). Amphotericin B is effective in a number of systemic fungal infections and can also be used locally, yet few studies have appeared on its value in Candida vaginitis (Jennison, 1958; Stough and Blank, 1958) and none has been design...