ABSTRACT Objective: to assess Pap smear performance in bacterial vaginosis diagnosis women of childbearing age. Method: a cross-sectional, retrospective study carried out health unit city the interior São Paulo. The included information from 1,173 who underwent collection and Gram-stained vaginal smears (reference standard test for diagnosis) analysis based on Nugent score, January 2013 June 20...

OBJECTIVE. To identify correlates of incident bacterial vaginosis (BV) diagnosed with Nugent scoring among high-risk women. STUDY DESIGN. We conducted both cohort and case-crossover analyses, stratified by HIV infection status, based on 871 HIV-infected and 439 HIV-uninfected participants in the HIV Epidemiology Research Study, conducted in 4 US sites in 1993-2000. RESULTS. BV incidence was 21%...

Forty-two healthy women were randomized to receive one of three encapsulated Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 plus Lactobacillus fermentum RC-14 probiotic dosage regimens or L. rhamnosus GG by mouth each day for 28 days. However, the vaginal flora, assessed by Nugent scoring, was only normal in 40% of the cases, and 14 patients had asymptomatic bacterial vaginosis. Treatment with L. rhamnosus GR-1/...

Bacterial vaginosis is a polymicrobial, superficial vaginal infection involving reduction in the amount of hydrogen-peroxide-producing Lactobacillus and an overgrowth anaerobic Gram-negative or Gram-variable bacteria. Risk FactorsThe current predictors BV have been limited to race, sexual activity, socioeconomic status, perhaps douching. The reported prevalence among pregnant women ranges from ...

The Harlem Renaissance was a modernist movement of self-affirmation black identity in the arts that, dialogue with anticolonial articulations, reached its peak 1920s, United States. Many authors, such as Langston Hughes (1901-1964), Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) and Nella Larsen (1891-1964) currently have their names linked to movement, but, despite this, they...