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Bacterial vaginosis among a group of married Jordanian women: occurrence and laboratory diagnosis 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Abu Shaqra QM 《Cytobios》2001,105(408):35-43
A total of 310 vaginal swabs collected from a group of married Jordanian women complaining of vaginal discharge were examined for bacterial vaginosis. The scoring system of Nugent for the interpretation of Gram staining was employed. This system revealed the presence of the condition in 29.7% of patients. Results obtained using the scoring system correlated significantly with the detection of clue cells and the scarcity of white blood cells in the vaginal discharge. An inverse relationship was found between bacterial vaginosis and Lactobacillus morphotypes determined by Gram staining. No definite relationship was detected between bacterial vaginosis and the recovery of Gardnerella vaginalis by culture as this organism was isolated from swabs which according to the Nugent criterion were negative for bacterial vaginosis. Bacterial vaginosis among the women investigated was more prevalent than vaginitis caused by Trichomonas vaginalis or yeasts. 相似文献
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Alex van Belkum Cindy van der Schee Willem I van der Meijden Henri A Verbrugh Hans J.F Sluiters 《FEMS immunology and medical microbiology》2001,32(1):27-32
Swabs from the posterior vaginal fornix were obtained from 804 consecutive female patients visiting a large Dutch sexually transmitted diseases (STD) outpatient clinic. A detailed clinical history was obtained and complaints concerning the lower genital tract, such as vaginal discharge or vulval and vaginal irritation, were recorded. Patients were examined and the presence of non-physiological vaginal secretions was established by speculum examination. The swabs were monitored for bacterial vaginosis (BV) or Candida albicans infection. PCR diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis and Trichomonas vaginalis was performed as well. Four groups of patients (n=14-21) with BV or single infections caused by one of these three pathogens and a control group with no pathogens were selected and Mycoplasma hominis PCR was performed additionally. At clinical presentation, controls and single-infected patient groups were comparable with regard to complaints of the lower genital tract and sexual risk behavior defined as having prior STDs and/or admitted prostitution. Only in the T. vaginalis-positive group significantly more women reporting sexual risk behavior were found than in controls. In agreement with former in vitro observations, an in vivo association between the PCR-detected presence of M. hominis and T. vaginalis was established. In 79% of all samples positive for T. vaginalis, M. hominis could be detected, as compared to only 6% in control samples (P=0.0004). However, since single infections by either of the two pathogens were regularly observed, there does not seem to be an exclusive association between the species, as the bacterium is also more frequently found in cases of BV (P=0.026). Co-infection of M. hominis with C. albicans (11%) or C. trachomatis (0%) did not differ significantly from controls (6%). M. hominis did not associate with complaints of the lower genital tract. However, if all groups were combined there appears to be a very significant association between the presence of M. hominis and sexual risk behavior (P=0.0004). M. hominis and sexual risk behavior were more closely associated than M. hominis and T. vaginalis. No indications were found for an enhanced pathogenicity by either of the symbionts. 相似文献
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M J Goldacre N Loudon B Watt G Grant J D Loudon K McPherson M P Vessey 《BMJ (Clinical research ed.)》1978,1(6115):748-750
Women attending a family planning clinic were studied to determine the relation between cervical erosion and clinical and social characteristics. The appearance of the cervix was recorded without knowledge of the women''s symptoms. The prevalence of erosion increased with parity but, when the effects of other factors were controlled, decreased in women aged 35 and over. Erosion was significantly more common in women taking the "pill" and less common in women using barrier methods of contraception than in others. There was considerable variation between doctors in the reporting of erosion. No association was found between erosion and postcoital bleeding, dyspareunia, backache, or dysuria. There was a significant but modest association between erosion and vaginal discharge and a suggestion that erosion may sometimes be associated with nocturia and frequency of micturition. Vaginal flora was similar in women with and without erosion. Cervical erosion should not be regarded as pathological in asymptomatic women, nor should it be assumed necessarily to be the cause of symptoms in women with genitourinary complaints. 相似文献
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Arechavala AI Bianchi MH Robles AM Santiso G Negroni R 《Revista iberoamericana de micología》2007,24(4):305-308
Vulvovaginal candidiasis is a condition that affects a great number of fertile women. It is considered the second cause of genital infection after vaginosis due to GAM complex. Candida albicans is the most frequent isolated species from vaginal discharge. However, sometimes more than one yeast species could be found in the same clinical sample that are more resistant to antifungal drugs. Nowadays, it is necessary to identify properly up to species level the isolated microorganism and to determine the antifungal susceptibility profile. One hundred strains obtained from vaginal discharge of 94 patients suffering acute vulvovaginal candidiasis were studied. The identification of the isolates showed: C. albicans 86%, Candida glabrata 6%, Candida inconspicua 3%, Candida krusei 2% and Candida intermedia, Candida holmii and Trichosporon asahii one case each. Minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of all the yeasts against fluconazole and albaconazole were performed. C. glabrata, C. krusei and C. inconspicua were the most resistant against fluconazole, on the other hand albicans was susceptible to this drug. All the isolates presented MIC against albaconazole much lower than fluconazole. 相似文献
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IgA and IgG antibodies to Candida albicans in the genital tract secretions of women with or without vaginal candidosis 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Levels of anti-Candida albicans immunoglobulin A (IgA) and IgG were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in serum and cervicovaginal secretions from 64 non-pregnant women with vaginal candidosis and 158 uninfected non-pregnant women. Specific IgA and IgG were detected in the serum and secretions of all 222 women. There was no significant difference between the mean levels of specific IgA or IgG in secretions from women with candidosis and those of uninfected women. Neither was there a significant difference between mean levels of specific IgA or IgG when women using oral contraception were compared with others who were not. There was a significant correlation between the levels of IgA and IgG in serum and secretions from women with candidosis and from uninfected women. Blastospore and hyphal forms of C. albicans were seen in vaginal smears from 29 of the 64 women with culture-proven candidosis: in nine, both IgA- and IgG-coated C. albicans cells were recovered from the genital tract; in a tenth, IgG-coated cells were found. 相似文献
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Candido Regina Celia Toloi Maria Regina Torqueti Franceschini Silvio Antonio Garcia Flaviane Ramos Minto Elaine Cristina Manini 《Mycopathologia》1998,144(1):15-20
Vaginal candidiasis continues to be a common cause of vaginal discharge, pruritus and other local complaints in women worldwide.
Although numerous antimycotic agents are available for the treatment of yeast vaginitis there is little comparative data on
the in vitro activity of these drugs. The objectives of this study were to isolate and identify the Candida species in the
vagina and anus of patients treated in a gynaecology clinic, as well as determine the susceptibility to azolic compounds measured
by the E-test method. Vaginal and rectal swabs were collected from 80 adult non-pregnant patients, seen at a gynaecological
clinic, aged 18–59 years, with sexual activity, with and without vaginitis. The swabs were processed by methods routinely
used for the detection of pathogenic yeasts. The susceptibility of the isolates to fluconazole, ketoconazole and itraconazole,
was measured by the agar diffusion method (E-test), using RPMI 1640 medium with 2% glucose and phosphate buffer. Candida species
(33) strains were isolated from 17 patients at similar proportions from both anatomical sites, and 12 patients harboured 24
strains of C. albicans in the vaginal and rectal tracts. Twenty one percent of the strains of C. albicans were resistant to
ketoconazole, 54% were resistant to itraconazole and 0% were resistant to fluconazole. The sensitivity of strains isolated
from the two sites were similar, indicating that these are strains of the same phenotype.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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A total of 106 women with vaginitis in Nicaragua were studied. The positive rate for the identification of Candida species was 41% (44 positive cultures out of 106 women with vaginitis). The sensitivity of microscopic examination of wet mount with the potassium hydroxide (KOH) was 61% and 70% with Gram's stain when using the culture of vaginal fluid as gold standard for diagnosis of candidiasis. Among the 44 positives cultures, isolated species of yeast from vaginal swabs were C. albicans (59%), C. tropicalis (23%), C. glabrata (14%) and C. krusei (4%). This study reports the first characterization of 26 C. albicans stocks from Nicaragua by the random amplified polymorphic DNA method. The genetic analysis in this small C. albicans population showed the existence of linkage disequilibrium, which is consistent with the hypothesis that C. albicans undergoes a clonal propagation. 相似文献
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Correlative relationship between adherence of Candida albicans to human vaginal epithelial cells in vitro and candidal vaginitis 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
This study investigated whether a correlation exists between predisposition to candidal vaginitis and adherence of Candida albicans to vaginal epithelial cells in vitro. Vaginal epithelial cells from 120 fecund women who were pregnant and/or diabetic had a greater propensity to bind C. albicans than did 71 oral contraceptive users and 75 non-pregnant, non-diabetic controls. The highest level of adherence occurred in pregnant diabetic women. Among 48 non-diabetic postmenopausal females, C. albicans adherence was lower than for fecund controls, but it was higher for cells from 33 postmenopausal diabetic women. The hormonal status of the fecund and postmenopausal women was assayed cytologically by the Karyopyknotic and Maturation Indices, which determine the ratios of superficial, intermediate and parabasal vaginal epithelial cells. Our findings point to increased C. albicans adherence in situations where there is an increase in the number of intermediate epithelial cells: pregnancy, the first or fourth weeks of the menstrual cycle, or diabetes. The adherence of 41 C. albicans isolates from patients with vaginitis was significantly higher than that of 36 isolates from asymptomatic carriers. 相似文献
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Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from 30 to 100 women attending a family physician''s office with dysuria, frequency or vaginal discharge, compared with 2 of 30 asymptomatic women. Multiple infections were common: C. trachomatis coexisted with Gardnerella vaginalis, Candida albicans, Trichomonas vaginalis or a bacterial cause of urinary tract infection in 15 patients. C. trachomatis was isolated alone from 15 symptomatic women. The source of the positive culture was not always the site of symptoms. C. trachomatis was isolated from both the cervix and the urine of 9 patients, either simultaneously or sequentially. The probability of finding a chlamydial infection was 30% in young women with vaginal discharge alone, 33% in those with dysuria and frequency alone and 53% in those with abdominal or pelvic pain in addition to lower urogenital tract symptoms. 相似文献
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Plakhtiĭ LIa Ryndina EI Dzhigkaeva LD Kisieva NR Chertkoeva MG 《Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii, i immunobiologii》2003,(2):68-69
In 75 female residents of Vladikavkaz, aged 18-45 years, who had applied to the gynecological department with complaints of vaginal discharge, the qualitative and quantitative composition of vaginal microflora was studied. All these women were divided into 2 groups: group 1 including 38 women living in ecologically unfavorable districts of the city and group 2 including 37 women living under ecologically favorable conditions. The relationship between the ecological situation of the districts of residence and vaginal microflora in women of the reproductive age was established. Unfavorable exogenous factors were found to lead to the development of vaginal dysbacteriosis: a sharp decrease in the amount of lactoflora or its complete absence accompanied by increased amount of staphylococci, enterococci, Escherichia coli, Proteus, Klebsiella and yeast-like fungi of the genus Candida. 相似文献
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Identification and plasmid profiles of Lactobacillus species from the vagina of 100 healthy women 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Gregor Reid Jacqueline A. McGroarty Lisa Tomeczek rew W. Bruce 《FEMS immunology and medical microbiology》1996,15(1):23-26
Abstract It was hypothesized that Lactobacillus acidophilus might not be the dominant aerobic or microaerophilic Lactobacillus species in the human vagina, and that the dominant isolates are likely to express a variety of properties associated with colonization. To examine the question, vaginal swabs were collected from 100 healthy premenopausal women and cultured to detect the dominant aerobic or microaerophilic isolates of Lactobacillus . Only eight species were detected, with Lactobacillus jensenii being the dominant colonizers in the highest number (35) of women. Twelve different plasmid profiles were found amongst the isolates, but there was no association between plasmids and vaginal colonization or hydrogen peroxide production. Of the strains tested, few were resistant to the spermicidal agent nonoxynol-9. The data identify species within which strains may possess properties associated with maintenance of a healthy vaginal ecology 相似文献
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Dezzutti CS Hendrix CW Marrazzo JM Pan Z Wang L Louissaint N Kalyoussef S Torres NM Hladik F Parikh U Mellors J Hillier SL Herold BC 《PloS one》2011,6(8):e23136
Background
Measurement of immune mediators and antimicrobial activity in female genital tract secretions may provide biomarkers predictive of risk for HIV-1 acquisition and surrogate markers of microbicide safety. However, optimal methods for sample collection do not exist. This study compared collection methods.Methods
Secretions were collected from 48 women (24 with bacterial vaginosis [BV]) using vaginal and endocervical Dacron and flocked swabs. Cervicovaginal lavage (CVL) was collected with 10 mL of Normosol-R (n = 20), saline (n = 14), or water (n = 14). The concentration of gluconate in Normosol-R CVL was determined to estimate the dilution factor. Cytokine and antimicrobial mediators were measured by Luminex or ELISA and corrected for protein content. Endogenous anti-HIV-1 and anti-E. coli activity were measured by TZM-bl assay or E. coli growth.Results
Higher concentrations of protein were recovered by CVL, despite a 10-fold dilution of secretions, as compared to swab eluents. After protein correction, endocervical swabs recovered the highest mediator levels regardless of BV status. Endocervical and vaginal flocked swabs recovered significantly higher levels of anti-HIV-1 and anti-E. coli activity than Dacron swabs (P<0.001). BV had a significant effect on CVL mediator recovery. Normosol-R tended to recover higher levels of most mediators among women with BV, whereas saline or water tended to recover higher levels among women without BV. Saline recovered the highest levels of anti-HIV-1 activity regardless of BV status.Conclusions
Endocervical swabs and CVL collected with saline provide the best recovery of most mediators and would be the optimal sampling method(s) for clinical trials. 相似文献13.
王蓉蓉 《中国微生态学杂志》2020,32(1):63-67
目的检测多次人工流产后妊娠期阴道病患者的致病微生物,并提出治疗建议。方法选取102例多次人工流产后妊娠期阴道病患者作为研究对象,所有患者均采用无菌棉拭子收集2份阴道分泌物样本,其中1份采用高倍镜检查阴道清洁度和滴虫感染情况,另1份检测病原微生物感染情况,统计病原微生物分布情况并检测常见病原微生物药敏情况。结果阴道清洁度检测显示,清洁度4度者构成比最高,为60.78%,其次为3度,1度者构成比最低。共12例患者存在滴虫感染,构成比为11.76%。人乳头瘤病毒(HPV)感染12例,感染率为11.76%。支原体感染率、衣原体感染率分别为38.24%、33.33%。92例患者阴道分泌物共检出225株病原菌,其中革兰阳性菌占60.44%,以棒状杆菌、金黄色葡萄球菌、表皮葡萄球菌为主;革兰阴性菌占25.78%,以肺炎克雷伯菌、阴道加德纳菌、大肠埃希菌为主;真菌占13.78%,以白假丝酵母、光滑假丝酵母、克柔假丝酵母为主。药敏试验显示,棒状杆菌、金黄色葡萄球菌、表皮葡萄球菌、乳杆菌和肠球菌属对青霉素的耐药率均较低,分别为0.00%、0.00%、5.00%、5.88%、6.67%;肺炎克雷伯菌、阴道加德纳菌、大肠埃希菌对亚胺培南的耐药率均较低,分别为4.55%、12.50%、9.09%;白假丝酵母、光滑假丝酵菌、克柔假丝酵母对两性霉素B、5-氟胞嘧啶的耐药率均为0.00%,且光滑假丝酵母菌对酮康唑、克霉唑的耐药率也均为0.00%。结论多次人工流产后妊娠期阴道病患者常见的致病微生物有滴虫、支原体、衣原体、细菌、真菌等,需要根据检测结果选择安全、合理的药物进行治疗。 相似文献
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The distribution of Candida species was examined using 1114 yeasts isolated from various clinical specimens. The isolates
were identified by germ tube test, hyphal/pseudohyphae and chlamydoconidia production and carbohydrate assimilation test using
ten carbohydrates (glucose, sucrose, trehalose, cellobiose, arabinose, galactose, mannitol, raffinose, lactose and maltose).
Among the 1114 isolates studied, 9 species of Candida were identified and the relative frequency of isolation was C. albicans
(44.2%), C. parapsilosis (26.0%), C. tropicalis (17.7%), C. glabrata (9.6%), C. krusei (1.2%), C. rugosa (0.6%), C. guilliermondii
(0.2%), C. lusitaniae (0.08%) and C. kefyr (0.08%). Non- C. albicans was the most common Candida species isolated from blood,
respiratory system, urine and skin. The isolate from vaginal swabs was predominantly C. albicans. 82.2% of C. glabrata and
64.2% of C. krusei isolated in this study were from vaginal swabs.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Lopes Consolaro ME Aline Albertoni T Shizue Yoshida C Mazucheli J Peralta RM Estivalet Svidzinski TI 《Revista iberoamericana de micología》2004,21(4):202-205
Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is an infection caused by abnormal yeast growth in the mucosa of the female genital tract which is commonly diagnosed in gynecology. The aim of this study was to correlate the frequency of yeasts and their respective species in asymptomatic women with different clinical manifestation of VVC; evaluate possible relationships between number of fungus colonies and symptoms in this pathology. All patients who visited the laboratory within a period of five months, for routine examinations of vaginal secretion, independent of the presence or absence of symptoms of VVC were included in this study. Of these, women with immunodeficiency or with an infection of the genital tract by another agent were excluded. Candida albicans was the most frequently yeast isolated (60%). Among non-C. albicans yeasts, 61.5% were isolated of the asymptomatic women, 38.7% from patients with VVC and 11.1% of those from patients with RVVC. C. albicans was associated with symptoms of VVC and while, the presence of non-C. albicans yeasts with asymptomatic women. However, there was no association between the number of fungal colonies and symptoms. 相似文献
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Millman K Black CM Stamm WE Jones RB Hook EW Martin DH Bolan G Tavaré S Dean D 《Microbes and infection / Institut Pasteur》2006,8(3):604-611
Chlamydia trachomatis is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted diseases worldwide. Urogenital strains are classified into serotypes and genotypes based on the major outer membrane protein and its gene, ompA, respectively. Studies of the association of serotypes with clinical signs and symptoms have produced conflicting results while no studies have evaluated associations with ompA polymorphisms. We designed a population-based cross-sectional study of 344 men and women with urogenital chlamydial infections (excluding co-pathogen infections) presenting to clinics serving five U.S. cities from 1995 to 1997. Signs, symptoms and sequelae of chlamydial infection (mucopurulent cervicitis, vaginal or urethral discharge; dysuria; lower abdominal pain; abnormal vaginal bleeding; and pelvic inflammatory disease) were analyzed for associations with serotype and ompA polymorphisms. One hundred and fifty-three (44.5%) of 344 patients had symptoms consistent with urogenital chlamydial infection. Gender, reason for visit and city were significant independent predictors of symptom status. Men were 2.2 times more likely than women to report any symptoms (P=0.03) and 2.8 times more likely to report a urethral discharge than women were to report a vaginal discharge in adjusted analyses (P=0.007). Differences in serotype or ompA were not predictive except for an association between serotype F and pelvic inflammatory disease (P=0.046); however, the number of these cases was small. While there was no clinically prognostic value associated with serotype or ompA polymorphism for urogenital chlamydial infections except for serotype F, future studies might utilize multilocus genomic typing to identify chlamydial strains associated with clinical phenotypes. 相似文献
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Anna Oksuzyan Maria Shkolnikova James W. Vaupel Kaare Christensen Vladimir M. Shkolnikov 《PloS one》2015,10(6)
Background
The apparent contradiction that women live longer but have worse health than men, the so called male-female health-survival paradox, is very pronounced in Russia. The present study investigates whether men in Moscow are healthier than women at the level of biomarkers, and whether the associations between biomarkers and subjective health have sex-specific patterns.Materials
Previously collected data in the study of Stress, Aging, and Health in Russia (SAHR, n = 1800) were used to examine sex differences in biomarkers and their associations with physical functioning and self-rated health.Results
The present study found mixed directions and magnitudes for sex differences in biomarkers. Women were significantly disadvantaged with regard to obesity and waist circumference, whereas men had a tendency toward higher prevalence of electrocardiographic abnormalities. No sex differences were indicated in the prevalence of immunological biomarkers, and mixed patterns were found for lipid profiles. Many biomarkers were associated with physical functioning and general health. Obesity and waist circumference were related to lower physical functioning among females only, while major Q-wave abnormalities with high probabilities of myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter were associated with physical functioning and self-rated health among males only.Conclusion
No clear patterns of sex differences in prevalence of high-risk levels of biomarkers suggest that the male-female health-survival paradox is weaker at the level of health biomarkers. We found some evidence that certain biomarkers reflecting pathophysiological changes in the organism that do not possess acute health risks, but over many years may lead to physical disability, are associated with physical functioning and self-rated health in women, whereas others reflecting more serious life-threatening pathophysiological changes are associated with physical functioning and self-rated health in men. 相似文献19.
O Hadjimichael D Janerich D M Lowell J W Meigs M J Merino P E Schwartz 《The Yale journal of biology and medicine》1989,62(4):345-350
Histologic and clinical characteristics associated with rapidly progressive invasive cervical cancer are presented in this preliminary report from a population-based study involving all patients in Connecticut diagnosed with cervical cancer from March 1, 1985. Rapidly progressive invasive cervical cancer, i.e., invasive cancer diagnosed within three years of a true negative Pap smear, is more likely to occur in younger women with high annual incomes (61 percent greater than $40,000) who report a greater frequency of benign gynecologic conditions (uterine leiomyomata, vaginitis) compared to a control cervical cancer group. These preliminary data suggest that as many as 35 percent of the rapidly progressive cervical cancers are likely to be adenocarcinomas. Because they are mostly endocervical in origin, they may not be detected cytologically if scrapers or cotton swabs are used to sample the endocervical canal. New cytologic screening techniques using brushes may identify these lesions earlier and should routinely be employed in cytologic screening for cervical neoplasia. The difficulty in early detection of this form of the disease requires that physicians rapidly assess patients with unexplained pelvic and lower abdominal pain, vaginal discharge, or abnormal vaginal bleeding since early recognition is the only chance for cure. Further analyses of this population of women will be made to identify additional risk factors when the study data are complete. 相似文献
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Santiago GL Cools P Verstraelen H Trog M Missine G El Aila N Verhelst R Tency I Claeys G Temmerman M Vaneechoutte M 《PloS one》2011,6(11):e28180