Publications
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| comparison of oral and vaginal metronidazole therapy for nonspecific bacterial vaginosis. | a prospective, randomized, nonblind study was performed to compare the efficacy of a 7-day vaginal regimen with 500 mg metronidazole (flagyl) once a day and that of oral treatment with 400 mg metronidazole twice daily for 7 days in the treatment of nonspecific bacterial vaginosis. no treatment was given to the sexual partners and there was no restriction of sexual intercourse. 38 women completed the study and at follow-up after 4 weeks, women receiving vaginal therapy had a cure rate of 79% comp ... | 1986 | 3710287 |
| quantitative studies of vaginal bacteria. | a quantitative method of culture, based on a weighed sample and with results expressed as colony forming units (cfu)/g was assessed and used to investigate the vaginal flora of normal women and that of women with vaginal disease. samples were collected by means of disposable plastic loops into modified proteose peptone water transport medium in preweighed bottles. counts expressed as cfu/g of secretion were consistent, whereas counts expressed as cfu/ml were inconsistent. results obtained with s ... | 1986 | 3733086 |
| bacterial vaginosis treated with metronidazole. effects on the vaginal microbiology by a single dose versus a five days regimen. | the microbiological vaginal flora was studied in 42 women with clinical findings consistent with the concept bacterial vaginosis (bv). the women and their consorts were treated with metronidazole (flagyl), either a single dose of 2,000 mg or 400 mg three times daily for five days. effect of treatment was assessed four weeks after its initiation. clinical cure was attained in more than 80% of the cases and was the same irrespective of treatment. the microbiologic flora changed by treatment in dir ... | 1986 | 3765938 |
| tetracycline resistance and tetm in pathogenic urogenital bacteria. | clinical isolates of gardnerella vaginalis, streptococcus agalactiae, bacteroides spp., and mobiluncus spp. were screened for resistance to tetracycline and for the presence of the streptococcal tetm determinant. the s. agalactiae and g. vaginalis strains contained dna sequences homologous to the tetm determinant, while strains of the other two genera did not. | 1986 | 3800360 |
| a retrospective study of doxycycline in the treatment of genitourinary infections. | a retrospective study was conducted to assess the prevalence of chlamydia trachomatis, ureaplasma ureolyticum, and mycoplasma sp in patients with suspected genital infection, and to assess the efficacy of doxycycline and other current antibiotic therapies. over a three-year period, 1,048 records of patients (64% female; 36% male) were reviewed. c trachomatis, u ureolyticum, or mycoplasma hominis was found in 39% of the men and 49% of the women. other pathogens included gardnerella vaginalis (in ... | 1986 | 3829089 |
| vaginitis: current microbiologic and clinical concepts. | infectious vaginitis occurs when the normal vaginal flora is disrupted; it may arise when saprophytes overwhelm the host immune response, when pathogenic organisms are introduced into the vagina or when changes in substrate allow an imbalance of microorganisms to develop. examples of these types of vaginitis include the presence of chronic fungal infection in women with an inadequate cellular immune response to the yeast, the introduction of trichomonads into vaginal epithelium that has a suffic ... | 1986 | 3510698 |
| [specific vaginal fluor caused by a recently identified bacterium]. | 1986 | 3515204 | |
| diagnosis of intrauterine infection by demonstration of antibody-coated bacteria in the amniotic fluid. | immunofluorescence examination of amniotic fluid for the occurrence of antibody-coated bacteria was carried out in 72 consecutive women with premature rupture of the fetal membranes to assess this method in the diagnosis of intrauterine infection. antibody-coated bacteria were demonstrated in 11 women with clinical signs of intrauterine infection, histological amnionitis and heavy growth of one bacterial species. the presence of intrauterine infection was considered possible in another 14 women. ... | 1986 | 3516201 |
| gardnerella vaginalis in urinary tract infections of renal allograft patients. | 1986 | 3516684 | |
| two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography for the specific detection of hippurate hydrolysis by microorganisms. | glycine, one of the end products of hippurate hydrolysis by microorganisms, was detected by a rapid, specific technique utilizing two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography. a loopful of growth of each organism from its suitable agar medium was washed, suspended, and incubated with 0.1% sodium hippurate for 30 min at 37 degrees c. the supernatant of the incubated suspension from each organism was then dansylated, and the dansyl derivatives were separated by two-dimensional thin-layer chromatograp ... | 1986 | 3517036 |
| vulvar disorders in the prepubertal female. | inspection of the vulva should be a routine part of well child care. detection of poor perineal hygiene permits the establishment of good hygiene practices, which may prevent development of vulvovaginitis. condylomata acuminata, molluscum contagiosum, herpetic vulvitis, and vulvovaginitis secondary to neisseria gonorrhoeae, gardnerella vaginalis, chlamydia trachomatis, and trichomonas vaginalis arouse suspicion of child sexual abuse, which must be addressed. atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, lichen ... | 1986 | 3529014 |
| significance of gardnerella vaginalis in urine cultures. | during a 15-month period, 12,343 consecutive routine urine cultures from female patients were screened for the presence of gardnerella vaginalis. of the positive urine cultures, escherichia coli was found in 1,256 (57%) and presumptive g. vaginalis in 163 (5%). of the 163 presumptive g. vaginalis isolates, 115 were present in quantitative categories sufficient to suggest the diagnosis of probable urinary tract infection. of these 115 isolates, 92 were available for specific identification, of wh ... | 1986 | 3529926 |
| [amine colpitis]. | significance of koh test and isonitril (isocyanide) reaction tested in 104 patients was compared with our microbial culture results. in gardnerella vaginalis as well as in no spores forming anaerobic germs the koh test was not and the isonitril reaction was only insignificant reliable. both tests are not able to substitute the procedures of culturing germs including those of mycoplasma hominis and ureaplasma urealyticum. | 1986 | 3532626 |
| in vitro comparative study of ru 28965 against organisms from oral and vaginal flora. | the authors studied the activity of ru 28965, a new macrolide antibiotic, in comparison whith erytromycin, josamycin, miocamycin, ampicillin and rifampicin against oral streptococci (45 strains), coryneform bacteria (23 strains) and g. vaginalis (15 strains). minimum inhibitory concentrations (mic), minimum bactericidal concentrations (mbc) and the effect of inoculum size on mics were determined. ru 28965 showed better activity than the other macrolides. the mics of ru 28965 were eightfold highe ... | 1986 | 3500081 |
| sexually transmitted vaginitis. | 1986 | 3496640 | |
| vaginal lactobacilli inhibiting growth of gardnerella vaginalis, mobiluncus and other bacterial species cultured from vaginal content of women with bacterial vaginosis. | on a solid agar medium the growth-inhibitory effect of 9 lactobacillus strains cultured from vaginal content was tested on bacteria cultured from vaginal content of women with bacterial vaginosis: mobiluncus, gardnerella vaginalis, bacteroides and anaerobic cocci. inhibition zones were observed in the growth of all of the strains isolated from women with bacterial vaginosis around all lactobacilli. the inhibitory effect of the lactobacilli was further tested on various anaerobic and facultativel ... | 1986 | 3494379 |
| activity of pefloxacin and thirteen other antimicrobial agents in vitro against isolates from hospital and genitourinary infections. | the in-vitro activity of the quinolone derivative pefloxacin was compared with that of three other quinolones, five beta-lactam antibiotics and three aminoglycosides against 367 isolates from hospital patients and from out-patients with genitourinary infections. mic90 of pefloxacin and norfloxacin for each strain was the same; that of ciprofloxacin was a little lower. all strains except escherichia coli were resistant to nalidixic acid. pefloxacin was highly active against staphylococcus aureus ... | 1986 | 3460983 |
| the in-vitro activity of ci-934 compared with that of other new 4-quinolones and nalidixic acid. | the in-vitro activity of ci-934, a new 4-quinolone compound, was compared with that of the other new 4-quinolones, enoxacin and ciprofloxacin, and also with that of nalidixic acid. ci-934 was more active than any of the other 4-quinolones tested against gram-positive aerobic organisms including staphylococcus aureus (mics 0.06-0.25 mg/l), beta-haemolytic streptococci (mics 0.12-0.5 mg/l), streptococcus pneumoniae (mics 0.25-0.5 ml/l), viridans streptococci (mics 0.06-0.5 mg/l) and most enterococ ... | 1986 | 3463557 |
| the comparative in-vitro activity of eight newer quinolones and nalidixic acid. | the in-vitro antibacterial activity of nalidixic acid and the 4-quinolones, ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, enoxacin, ofloxacin, pefloxacin, a-56619, a-56620 and ci-934 was assessed by determination of mics. the 4-quinolones were all highly active against most isolates of enterobacteriaceae, including nalidixic acid-resistant strains. ciprofloxacin (mics 0.002-2 mg/l) was the most active and a-56619 (mics 0.008-32 mg/l) was the least active. a-56619, a-56620, ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin and ci-934 were ... | 1986 | 3468100 |
| treatment of bacterial vaginosis with an acid cream: a comparison between the effect of lactate-gel and metronidazole. | bacteriological isolation of anaerobes, gardnerella and lactobacilli was carried out in a group of 62 women with the diagnosis bacterial vaginosis and 42 control women. lactobacilli were the predominant organisms in the control group whereas anaerobes dominated the flora in bacterial vaginosis patients. lactate-gel (ph 3.5, 5 ml) inserted into the vagina daily for 7 days is as effective as oral metronidazole, 500 mg twice daily for 7 days. the women in both groups became symptom-free and objecti ... | 1986 | 3485071 |
| the treatment of gardnerella vaginalis infection in general practice. | 1986 | 3485279 | |
| etiology of cervical inflammation. | we studied the relationships of selected microbial, clinical, demographic, and behavioral variables to mucopurulent cervicitis in two clinical settings, a sexually transmitted disease clinic and a student health clinic. from each clinic, we studied a group of women referred for suspected mucopurulent cervicitis and a representative sample of other women attending the clinic. after the women were stratified by patient group and summary odds ratios for all groups were obtained, mucopurulent cervic ... | 1986 | 3485379 |
| tioconazole 2% cream in the treatment of trichomonas vaginalis or mixed vaginal infections. | twenty patients with documented t. vaginalis infections, six of whom were simultaneously infected with c. albicans and one with g. vaginalis, were treated topically (intravaginally) once daily with 5 g of 2% tioconazole vaginal cream (trosyd, pfizer) for 3 consecutive days in an open, non-comparative study. at the first follow-up visit (about 7 days post-treatment), 95% (19/20) of the patients were cured; 95% (18/19) of patients remained cured with respect to the baseline infection at the long-t ... | 1986 | 3485546 |
| gardnerella vaginalis and mosaic colposcopic pattern of the cervix: casual or causal association? | we made a retrospective study of the flora found in the vaginal smears of sexually active women who presented with a mosaic colposcopic pattern of the uterine cervix in an attempt to study some of its epidemiologic factors. of the 195 cervicovaginal cytologies of patients with mosaic, 61 revealed an abnormal flora (31.2%) while of the 9,856 patients without mosaic, only 2,234 cytologies had an abnormal flora (22.7%) demonstrating a statistically significant higher frequency (p less than 0.0001) ... | 1986 | 3485553 |
| gardnerella vaginitis--a guide to identification and management for the practitioner. | 1986 | 3485708 | |
| diagnosis of gardnerella vaginalis infection by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. | 1986 | 3486120 | |
| episiotomy wound infection due to gardnerella vaginalis. | 1986 | 3487451 | |
| amoxycillin, augmentin and metronidazole in bacterial vaginosis associated with gardnerella vaginalis. | 1986 | 3487499 | |
| gardnerella vaginalis carriage in male patients. | urethral discharge from 579 consecutive men with non-gonococcal urethritis (ngu) was examined for gardnerella vaginalis. the organism was isolated from nine patients (1.5%). of these, one patient had a probable ngu due to g. vaginalis which is an extremely rare occurrence. the remaining eight patients were carriers of g. vaginalis. the prevalence rate of g. vaginalis in 150 randomly selected men without urethritis was five percent. | 1986 | 3488607 |
| [symptomatic and asymptomatic vaginitis. microbiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects]. | 1986 | 3488870 | |
| frequency and epidemiologic associations of different types of vaginitis in symptomatic women in greece. | 1986 | 3489617 | |
| incidence of gardnerella vaginalis in non-specific vaginitis. | 1986 | 3489675 | |
| cephalhematoma complicated by osteomyelitis presumed due to gardnerella vaginalis. | 1986 | 3489841 | |
| gardnerella vaginalis-associated balanoposthitis. | the clinical features, microbiologic investigation, and response to therapy of three patients with gardnerella vaginalis-associated balanoposthitis were studied. each man presented with a similar syndrome of diffuse erythema and pruritus of the glans meatus and coronal sulcus, irritation of the prepuce, and minimal urethral discharge. a characteristic fishy odor was present in the urethral discharge of all three patients. g. vaginalis was isolated from the glans of all three, and clue cells were ... | 1986 | 3490001 |
| detection of a species-specific antigen of gardnerella vaginalis by western blot analysis. | western blot analysis was used to identify antigenic components of gardnerella vaginalis. polypeptides bound to nitrocellulose membranes were probed with murine antisera raised to two strains of g. vaginalis, and antibody-antigen complexes were detected with 125i-labelled antimouse immunoglobulin followed by autoradiography. although there was inter-strain variation in immunogenic polypeptide profiles, all 23 strains of g. vaginalis examined contained a common antigen of molecular mass 41 kda. t ... | 1986 | 3491873 |
| bacteriuria due to ureaplasmas and other fastidious organisms during pregnancy: prevalence and significance. | when urine, which has been collected by suprapubic bladder aspiration, is appropriately cultured, asymptomatic bacteriuria due to fastidious organisms can be detected quite commonly in apparently healthy pregnant women; ureaplasma urealyticum and gardnerella vaginalis can each be isolated from the bladder urine of 10 to 15% of subjects, other bacteria less frequently. both organisms are often present together, sometimes in addition to "conventional" urinary pathogens. overall bacteriuria occurs ... | 1986 | 3491981 |
| resistance of gardnerella vaginalis to bactericidal activity of human serum. | to assess the sensitivity of gardnerella vaginalis to the complement mediated bactericidal activity of serum, six laboratory strains were incubated with normal human serum and two strains freshly isolated from women with non-specific vaginitis (nsv) were each incubated with homologous patient serum. there was no significant difference between the number of organisms recovered from unheated or heat inactivated serum after incubation at 37 degrees c for one hour with any of the strains tested. a s ... | 1986 | 3493201 |
| preterm labor associated with subclinical amniotic fluid infection and with bacterial vaginosis. | maternal genital infection, particularly subclinical amniotic fluid infection, may cause preterm labor and a premature delivery. the prevalence of subclinical amniotic fluid infection was studied in 54 consecutive afebrile women in preterm labor with singleton gestations and intact fetal membranes. microorganisms were recovered from the amniotic fluid by transabdominal amniocentesis in 13 (24%) of 54 patients. bacteria or candida albicans were recovered from six (11%), and genital mycoplasmas fr ... | 1986 | 3003634 |
| contribution of gardnerella vaginalis to vaginitis in a general practice. | in a study of 154 adult women who presented to their general practitioner with vaginal symptoms 30 (20%) had gardnerella vaginalis on its own and 51 (33%) had g vaginalis in combination with anaerobes or known pathogens. thirty one (20%) patients were culture negative. those who were culture negative had fewer symptoms and signs of vaginitis than those with g vaginalis alone or g vaginalis plus anaerobes. those with known pathogens had more symptoms and signs than those with g vaginalis alone or ... | 1986 | 3013357 |
| sulbactam/ampicillin versus metronidazole/gentamicin in the treatment of severe pelvic infections. | the clinical efficacy and safety of sulbactam/ampicillin versus metronidazole/gentamicin were compared in 39 patients with severe pelvic infections. 30 patients had severe acute pelvic inflammatory disease with peritonitis, 3 tubo-ovarian abscesses, 4 endomyometritis, and 2 posthysterectomy pelvic cellulitis. aerobic and anaerobic cultures from the sites of infection yielded 259 micro-organisms from 38 patients; an average of 6.8 bacteria per infection (3.9 anaerobes and 2.9 aerobes). the most f ... | 1986 | 3013566 |
| vaginal carriage of anaerobic motile curved rods: relation to contraceptive practice, common pathogens, signs and symptoms. | the carriers of a species of anaerobic motile curved rods, often seen in cases of bacterial vaginosis, were compared with matched controls with respect to type of contraception, current symptoms and signs, and diagnosis of sexually transmitted disease (std). 65 carriers and 72 controls were ascertained from a std clinic. the anaerobes were demonstrated by phase contrast microscopy in a wet vaginal smear in 17.8% of 366 consecutive admissions. these organisms are difficult to culture, but are ... | 1986 | 12281325 |
| [vaginitis due to gardnerella vaginalis in a university medical service]. | between august 1983 and june 1984, a total of 363 women were studied who had been referred to the medical service of the school of bacteriology and laboratory clinic of the university of antioquia, medellin, colombia, for obtaining vaginal cytology. they either had or did not have vaginal discharge. the smears were tested for gardnerella vaginalis and trichomonas vaginalis. the majority of the patients were in the third, fourth, and fifth decades of their lives: 51%, 24.5%, and 14%, respectiv ... | 1985 | 12292701 |
| the in-vitro activities of enoxacin and ofloxacin compared with that of ciprofloxacin. | the in-vitro activities of enoxacin and ofloxacin were compared with that of the other new 4-quinolone, ciprofloxacin. all three compounds were highly active against enterobacteriaceae, haemophilus influenzae and neisseria gonorrhoeae (mics mostly less than 1 mg/l). the other gram-negative aerobes tested were in general less susceptible, though for acinetobacter and pseudomonas species (including aeruginosa) mics seldom exceeded 8 mg/l. ofloxacin and ciprofloxacin were more active against gardne ... | 1985 | 3159712 |
| [bacterial vaginitis. microbiology, diagnosis, therapy and complications]. | 1985 | 3871690 | |
| vaginal infection with gardnerella vaginalis. | 1985 | 3871942 | |
| vaginitis due to gardnerella vaginalis and to candida albicans in sexual abuse. | sexually transmitted diseases may be transferred to children and adolescents during voluntary or involuntary sexual contact. two children are reported with the unusual association of sexual abuse and candida albicans or gardnerella vaginalis infections. awareness of the techniques for diagnosis of these infections is essential for appropriate management of the abused child. these organisms should not be considered normal flora when found in symptomatic children and adolescents and should raise t ... | 1985 | 3872154 |
| treatment of gardnerella vaginalis vaginitis. | 1985 | 3872155 | |
| anaerobes and gardnerella vaginalis in non-specific vaginitis. | clinical evidence of bacterial vaginosis was present in 25 (35%) of 72 patients attending a london venereology clinic and correlated significantly with abnormal organic acids in vaginal secretions (24/25), with gardnerella vaginalis on culture (17/25), with complaints of vaginal malodour (15/25), and with a relative scarcity of white blood cells in vaginal secretions. anaerobic vaginal flora were presumptively identified by gas-liquid chromatographic analysis of organic acids found in vaginal se ... | 1985 | 3872256 |
| carriage of gardnerella vaginalis and anaerobes in semen. | gardnerella vaginalis was isolated from 22 (38%) of 58 semen samples obtained from men attending an infertility clinic. counts ranged from 1.2 x 10(3) to greater than 10(7) colony forming units (cfu)/ml. there was no association between the isolation of g vaginalis and the sperm count. twenty (34.4%) samples contained non-sporing anaerobes and nine (15.5%) both anaerobes and g vaginalis. the infective dose of g vaginalis is not known, but semen could act as a medium for its sexual transmission. | 1985 | 3872257 |
| single-dose metronidazole for gardnerella vaginalis. | 1985 | 3872426 | |
| hemophilus influenzae in urine. | 1985 | 3872646 | |
| [gardnerella vaginitis]. | 1985 | 3873117 | |
| colistin-oxolinic acid blood agar: a selective medium for the isolation of gardnerella vaginalis. | colistin-oxolinic acid medium is proposed as a selective isolation medium for gardnerella vaginalis. the medium is effective in inhibiting staphylococci and gram-negative bacteria while allowing growth of g. vaginalis. | 1985 | 3873471 |
| vaginitis. | vaginitis is one of the most common complaints of women in the united states today. about 90% of patients with this problem suffer from infection of the vagina caused by candida, gardnerella, or trichomonas. the diagnosis and effective treatment of these common infections depend on accurate identification of the entity, effective specific therapy, and restoration of the normal ecosystem of the vagina. at the same time women should be made aware that not all discharge means infection and that any ... | 1985 | 3873872 |
| identification of gardnerella vaginalis with the api 20 strep system. | a total of 137 strains of gardnerella vaginalis were examined by the api 20 strep system. the system was shown to be reliable when the tests were compared with standard identification methods, and very little confusion occurred with streptococcal profiles; consequently, g. vaginalis has been included in the api 20 strep data base. | 1985 | 3874213 |
| gardnerella vaginalis in urinary tract infections of immunocompromised patients. | 1985 | 3874777 | |
| gardnerella vaginalis & associated aerobic bacteria in nonspecific vaginitis. | 1985 | 3874825 | |
| phagocytosis and killing of gardnerella vaginalis by human neutrophils. | gardnerella vaginalis was ingested and killed by neutrophils in the presence of normal human serum. heat inactivation of the serum inhibited these processes. the opsonisation of some but not all g vaginalis strains was enhanced by immune rabbit serum. immune serum did not, however, enhance intracellular killing. blockade of the classical pathway of complement activation had no effect on the opsonic activity of human serum. these results suggest that the opsonisation, phagocytosis, and killing of ... | 1985 | 3874884 |
| laboratory identification of sexually transmitted diseases. | laboratory methods are used for the rapid identification of nine sexually transmitted diseases. some problems are inherent in those methods. alternate approaches can be used in the laboratory. | 1985 | 3874959 |
| importance of differential diagnosis in acute vaginitis. | acute vaginitis is one of the most common diseases seen in the practice of office gynecology. large survey studies of women with lower genital tract symptoms suggestive of vaginitis have demonstrated the presence of three major etiologic categories in acute vaginitis: (1) nonspecific vaginosis (gardnerella vaginalis), (2) vulvovaginal candidiasis (candida albicans), and (3) trichomoniasis (trichomonas vaginalis). effective treatment of acute vaginitis requires that an accurate diagnosis be estab ... | 1985 | 3875290 |
| [amine colpitis]. | 1985 | 3876973 | |
| vaginal discharge and gardnerella vaginalis. predisposing factors. | a total of 284 women in the reproductive years with vaginal discharge from which only gardnerella vaginalis (gv) had been isolated, entered a questionnaire study on the possible causal relation between presence of gv and type of menstrual hygiene, type of contraception, number of deliveries, infertility and number of sexual partners. a control group consisted of 225 women without vaginal discharge. the study showed that patients with gv significantly more frequently used tampons for menstrual hy ... | 1985 | 3877329 |
| microbiology of the lower genital tract in postmenarchal adolescent girls: differences by sexual activity, contraception, and presence of nonspecific vaginitis. | the prevalence of selected microorganisms in the lower genital tract in postmenarchal adolescent girls was assessed, including vaginal gardnerella vaginalis, group b streptococcus, lactobacillus, mycoplasma species, ureaplasma urealyticum, staphylococcus aureus, and yeast, and endocervical mycoplasma species, u. urealyticum, chlamydia trachomatis, neisseria gonorrhoeae, and trichomonas vaginalis. specific attention was focused on important sexually transmitted disease organisms, and differences ... | 1985 | 3877803 |
| predictive value of the "clue cells" investigation and the amine volatilization test in vaginal infections caused by gardnerella vaginalis. | although still controversial, an etiologic role of gardnerella vaginalis is imputed in vaginitis. besides isolation of the organism by culture, two alternative diagnostic procedures have been claimed to be useful: the investigation of "clue cells" in clinical specimens and the amine volatilization test or fishy odor perception in genital secretions. herein we report on the findings of the simultaneous use of g. vaginalis isolation, the clue cell test and amine volatilization perception in specim ... | 1985 | 3878365 |
| comparison of two different metronidazole regimens in the treatment of gardnerella vaginalis infection with or without trichomoniasis. | gardnerella vaginalis infection confirmed by culture was treated either by a 2 g dose or divided doses of metronidazole in 100 and 200 female patients respectively. both dosages were equally effective. we recommend a single dose of 2 g metronidazole in the treatment of gard. vaginalis infection, particularly when association with trichomoniasis is confirmed or suspected. | 1985 | 3879249 |
| isolation of gardnerella vaginalis from high vaginal swabs. | vaginal swabs from 2715 consecutive unselected women with vaginal discharge were examined for gardnerella vaginalis, candida albicans and trichomonas vaginalis. of 2715 women, 2043 had non-specific vaginitis and g. vaginalis was isolated from 269 cases (13.2%). thirty five of the strains were isolated together with c. albicans, eight with t. vaginalis, six with bacteroides species and three each with group b streptococcus and staphylococcus aureus. two hundred and sixteen (80%) of the isolates w ... | 1985 | 3879398 |
| a case of conjunctivitis in a neonate due to gardnerella vaginalis. | a case of conjunctivitis in a neonate caused by gardnerella vaginalis is described. the diagnosis was confirmed by examination of a gram-stained smear, isolation of the organism from the conjunctival swab, and also by response to treatment with chloramphenicol. the organism was probably derived from the mother's birth canal during delivery and the early rupture of membrane might be the predisposing factor. | 1985 | 3879399 |
| [clinical, diagnostic and management aspects in vulvovaginitis and pelvic inflammatory disease]. | 1985 | 3879641 | |
| [antimicrobial activity of nifuratel]. | 1985 | 3879754 | |
| gardnerella vaginalis: genitourinary pathogen in men. | 1985 | 3883630 | |
| [amine colpitis, not only an esthetic problem: increased infection risk in labor]. | in 76 women with non-specific vaginitis we could always isolate gardnerella vaginalis and several anaerobics, especially bacteroides species, in hgh counts. in 19 puerperae, bacteriologial examinations of the infected episiotomy wound yielded a spectrum of pathogens similar to that of non-specific vaginitis. in 74 per cent of the women with wound infection following episiotomy, non-specific vaginitis had either already been present before childbirth (and identified as gardnerella vaginalis vagin ... | 1985 | 3884431 |
| non-specific vaginitis: diagnostic features and response to imidazole therapy (metronidazole, ornidazole). | detailed quantitative aerobic, anaerobic, fungal and mycoplasma flora was obtained for 43 women presenting with complaints of vaginal discharge and malodour. clinical response was associated with eradication of the abnormal anaerobic flora, despite persistence of g vaginalis in nine (26%). topical imidazole therapy appeared to have some advantage over oral therapy. gram stains of vaginal swabs were found to be the most useful laboratory investigation. | 1985 | 3887255 |
| problems in specimen collection for sexually transmitted diseases. | laboratory methods for the diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases (stds) are continuously undergoing improvement. it remains the responsibility of the clinician to become familiar with the tests available for the diagnosis of stds. those tests depend on obtaining clinical specimens from the proper site and on transporting them to the laboratory under satisfactory conditions. | 1985 | 3894659 |
| comparison of single-dose vs one-week course of metronidazole for symptomatic bacterial vaginosis. | in a prospective, single-blind, randomized study, a single 2-g dose of metronidazole was compared with a seven-day course of 500 mg given twice daily in the treatment of symptomatic vaginal discharge associated with gardnerella vaginalis. based on resolution of symptoms and on cultures negative for g vaginalis, 86% (40/46) of women treated with the single dose and 97% (35/36) of women treated with the seven-day course were considered cured at seven to ten days after treatment. evaluation at 21 d ... | 1985 | 3894707 |
| moxalactam versus clindamycin plus tobramycin in the treatment of obstetric and gynecologic infections. | the clinical efficacy of moxalactam versus clindamycin/tobramycin was evaluated in a comparative, randomized, prospective study. sixty patients were treated: 30 with moxalactam and 30 with clindamycin/tobramycin. there were 15 cases of tuboovarian abscess, 36 cases of severe pelvic inflammatory disease with peritonitis, eight cases of endomyometritis, and one wound abscess. aerobic and anaerobic cultures from the sites of infection yielded 441 microorganisms from 53 patients; an average of 8.3 b ... | 1985 | 3895947 |
| an office laboratory panel to assess vaginal problems. | in determining the cause of vaginal complaints, the routine use of four simple tests ("the vagina panel") enables the physician to identify pathogens (candida, gardnerella, trichomonas), pathologic processes (inflammation, estrogen deficiency) and, in most instances, a healthy vagina. time and money are saved. the specimens can be collected in one minute during a pelvic examination. the panel can provide the answers to eight essential questions in two minutes of observer time, with supplies cost ... | 1985 | 3898791 |
| the treatment of gardnerella vaginalis vaginosis: a randomized comparison of pivampicillin with metronidazole. | the efficacy of pivampicillin and metronidazole were compared in the treatment of gardnerella vaginalis associated bacterial vaginosis. in a multicenter trial 86 women were given pivampicillin (p) 700 mg twice daily for 6 days and 86 women received metronidazole (m) 400 mg three times daily for 7 days. at control, 2 weeks from the start of treatment, patients in group p showed the best clinical results, 77.9% in group p vs. 64.0% in group m (p = 0.066). p showed a higher clinical efficacy than m ... | 1985 | 3898976 |
| diagnostic value of clinical examination, direct microscopy, and culture in the gardnerella vaginalis syndrome. | in a general practice 467 women aged 15-49 years with vaginal discharge were consecutively examined in order to compare the diagnostic value in the gardnerella vaginalis syndrome of the clinical examination, direct microscopy of the vaginal secretion, and culture. we found significant correlations between all relevant combinations of the diagnostic methods. the predictive value of a positive test for the clinical examination, the microscopy, and the clinical examination combined with microscopy, ... | 1985 | 3903905 |
| treatment of the gardnerella vaginalis syndrome. a controlled, double-blind study comparing pivampicillin and metronidazole. | a double-blind, randomized, therapeutic study was carried out in 289 patients with vaginal discharge and growth of gardnerella vaginalis (gv) and no growth of neisseria gonorrhoeae, trichomonas vaginalis or candida. treatment consisted of either pivampicillin (pondocillin), 700 mg twice daily for seven days, or metronidazole, 500 mg twice daily for seven days. the effect was evaluated on the basis of the patient's statement and on the result of culture for gv immediately after end of treatment. ... | 1985 | 3903906 |
| in-vitro and in-vivo activity of metronidazole against gardnerella vaginalis, bacteroides spp. and mobiluncus spp. in bacterial vaginosis. | an open, randomized, culture-controlled clinical study was designed to compare the efficacy of a single 2 g dose of metronidazole (elyzol) with standard 7-day therapy in the treatment of bacterial vaginosis (bv). forty-one of 47 (87%) patients given the single dose and 30 of 33 (91%) given the 7-day treatment were found to be cured seven days after treatment. at final assessment, 24 of 34 (71%) patients given the single dose and 22 of 28 (79%) given the 7-day treatment remained cured. the two re ... | 1985 | 3905748 |
| [detection of gardnerella vaginalis in the pathogen spectrum of sexually transmissible diseases in vulvovaginitis]. | gardnerella vaginalis, a sexually transmittable organism, is regarded as the indicator of the so-called "non-specific vaginitis". the isolation rate of g. vaginalis from 72 women attending our out-patient department during one year because of urogenital complaints was higher in pretreated than in untreated patients. in genital swabs taken from untreated patients, g. vaginalis could be isolated only in 17%, whereas this was observed in 38% of the specimens from women pretreated with various antim ... | 1985 | 3907172 |
| [bacterial vaginosis]. | 1985 | 3907521 | |
| adhesion of gardnerella vaginalis to vaginal epithelial cells: variables affecting adhesion and inhibition by metronidazole. | variables affecting the adherence of gardnerella vaginalis to human vaginal epithelial cells were examined in vitro. adherence depended on ph, with maximum attachment occurring between ph 5 and ph 6. preincubation of the bacteria at 56 degrees c for 30 minutes and ultraviolet irradiation resulted in a noticeable decrease in adherence. in contrast, adherence was not altered by preincubating the epithelial cells under these conditions. periodate oxidation of the vaginal cells caused an appreciable ... | 1985 | 3910547 |
| [pelvic inflammatory disease and nonspecific vaginitis]. | 1985 | 3911475 | |
| evaluation of gas-liquid chromatography for the rapid diagnosis of amniotic fluid infection: a preliminary report. | gas-liquid chromatography has been proposed as a possible tool in the rapid diagnosis of amniotic fluid infections. the analysis is based on the identification of specific organic acids derived from bacterial metabolism when organisms are present within the amniotic fluid. we retrospectively subjected 69 samples of amniotic fluid which had been obtained by transabdominal amniocentesis to analysis by gas-liquid chromatography. forty-seven samples were derived from patients who either were in prem ... | 1985 | 3922227 |
| [gardnerella vaginalis in routine cultures of material from the genital region]. | 1985 | 3923372 | |
| [isolation and identification of gardnerella vaginalis]. | thirty-four strains of gardnerella vaginalis were studied. they were isolated from non specific vaginitis. a presumptive identification can be based on colonial morphology, gram stain characteristics, negative catalase and oxidase test. the differentiation of gardnerella vaginalis from other negative catalase coccobacilli is based on the acid formation of carbohydrates, enzymatic test, analysis of short chain volatile and non volatile end products of fermentation in glc. all gardnerella strains ... | 1985 | 3931038 |
| [prevalence of 7 microorganisms in abnormal vaginal secretions (vaginitis)]. | seven microorganisms (n. gonorrhoeae, c. albicans, t. vaginalis, g. vaginalis, m. hominis, u. urealyticum and streptococcus of group b) have been assayed in genital samplings of 164 asymptomatic women (control group) and of 374 women suffering from abnormal vaginal secretions (vaginitis group). all these bacteria except group b streptococci were isolated in the vaginitis group more frequently than in the control group (p less than 0.01). the proportion of negative cultures for all tested bacteri ... | 1985 | 3934750 |
| in vitro adherence of lactobacillus species to vaginal epithelial cells. | because of the reported use of yogurt douches for the treatment of vaginitis, the adherence of lactobacillus species to normal human vaginal epithelial cells was tested by in vitro methods. l. acidophilus and l. bulgaricus isolated from three commercial yogurts were compared to l. acidophilus, l. fermentum, l. cellobiosus, and l. casei isolated from clinical specimens and from american type culture collection cultures. l. acidophilus isolated from lactinex tablets was also tested. no significant ... | 1985 | 3934974 |
| reverse camp phenomenon of gardnerella vaginalis (a note). | gardnerella vaginalis strains inhibit the haemolysis by listeria monocytogenes on human blood agar incubated in 5-10% co2 atmosphere or under anaerobic conditions. | 1985 | 3939073 |
| clinical comparison of an agar slide blood culture bottle with tryptic soy broth and a conventional blood culture bottle with supplemented peptone broth. | the roche septi-chek biphasic blood culture system with tryptic soy broth was compared with a conventional blood culture bottle with supplemented peptone broth in 6,956 paired blood cultures from adult patients. both systems were inoculated with equal volumes of blood (5 ml) and incubated aerobically (vented) for 2 weeks. more clinically important bacteria and fungi, including staphylococcus aureus, s. epidermidis, escherichia coli and other enterobacteriaceae, pseudomonas aeruginosa, and candid ... | 1985 | 3998116 |
| nonspecific vaginitis following sexual abuse in children. | nonspecific vaginitis, one of the most common causes of vaginitis in adults, is a polymicrobial infection in which vaginal anaerobes act synergistically with gardnerella vaginalis. the diagnosis is made by examination of the vaginal secretions for clue cells, the development of a fishy odor after the addition of 10% koh to vaginal secretions, and a vaginal ph greater than 4.5. to determine whether nonspecific vaginitis occurs in sexually abused children, we obtained vaginal washes from 31 abused ... | 1985 | 4000776 |
| [etiology of bacterial vaginosis (non-specific vaginitis)]. | 56 women who were diagnosed bioclinically as having a bacterial vaginal infection were studied, as were 35 women as a control group. the study was a semi-quantitative analysis of the vaginal bacterial flora, both aerobic and anaerobic. it shows that gardnerella vaginalis and anaerobic bacteria such as peptococcus, peptostreptococcus, bacteroïdes, veillonella and mobiluncus were associated in a statistically significant way with bacterial vaginitis. on the other hand lactobacilli were less freque ... | 1985 | 4078248 |
| [malodorous leukorrhea caused by gardnerella vaginalis vaginitis. biochemical study of vaginal secretions]. | 1985 | 2932731 | |
| the association of sexually transmitted diseases with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: a case-control study. | thirty-three women with histologically confirmed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (grades i to iii, with one case of microinvasive carcinoma) and 54 women without evidence of the disease were prospectively studied to determine the relationship of genital infection to cervical neoplasia. demographic and sexual data for patients and control subjects were collected, with standardized clinical and colposcopic evaluation by means of predefined diagnostic categories. cultures from the cervix were ex ... | 1985 | 2982264 |
| use of a sodium polyanetholesulfonate disk for the identification of gardnerella vaginalis. | several methods have been previously suggested for the presumptive identification of gardnerella vaginalis in clinical laboratories, but none is entirely satisfactory. we previously found that sodium polyanetholesulfonate (sps) inhibits g. vaginalis in blood culture media. we compared susceptibility to an sps-containing paper disk with beta-hemolysis on human blood agar, hippurate hydrolysis, and inhibition by alpha-hemolytic streptococci for identification of 62 previously confirmed g. vaginali ... | 1985 | 2982910 |
| effect of sodium polyanetholesulfonate and gelatin on the recovery of gardnerella vaginalis from blood culture media. | sodium polyanetholesulfonate (sps) is used as a routine supplement to blood culture media to enhance recovery of microorganisms, but it inhibits the growth of peptostreptococcus anaerobius, neisseria meningitidis, neisseria gonorrhoeae, and streptobacillus moniliformis. comparative clinical blood culture studies at the university of colorado hospital suggested that sps also inhibits the growth of gardnerella vaginalis. we inoculated 16 blood culture isolates of g. vaginalis into 11 blood culture ... | 1985 | 2987298 |
| sodium polyanethol sulphonate discs to identify gardnerella vaginalis. | 1985 | 2991122 | |
| sodium polyanetholesulfonate in the identification of gardnerella vaginalis. | 1985 | 2993355 | |
| non-gonococcal urethritis in men & its response to therapy. | 1984 | 6097537 |