ArticleCurrent infectious disease reports2009
Antibiotic consideration in bacterial vaginosis.
Article in Current infectious disease reports, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02863536 (A Multicenter, Open Label, Non-comparative, 3 Months Study to Assess the Performance and Safety of the New Medical Device Polybactum® in Reducing the Frequency of Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers.
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A Multicenter, Open Label, Non-comparative, 3 Months Study to Assess the Performance and Safety of the New Medical Device Polybactum® in Reducing the Frequency of Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- POLARIS: efficacy and safety of a vaginal medical device in recurrent bacterial vaginosis-a multicenter, open-label, non-controlled, study with 10 months of follow-up.The Journal of international medical research · 2024Observational
- Performance and Safety of a New Medical Device (Polybactum) for Reducing the Recurrence Rate of Bacterial Vaginosis: Protocol for a Multicenter, Open-Label, Noncontrolled International Clinical Trial (POLARIS Study).JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Finding a Balance in the Vaginal Microbiome: How Do We Treat and Prevent the Occurrence of Bacterial Vaginosis?Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Use of locally delivered dequalinium chloride in the treatment of vaginal infections: a review.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2016Review
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Abstract
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a syndrome characterized by the loss of indigenous vaginal lactobacilli and massive polymicrobial anaerobic vaginal overgrowth of elusive etiology. Although progress has occurred in defining the composition of the vaginal microbiome using DNA amplifications, rapidly accumulating data have not resulted in therapeutic advantage. Treatment options remain limited and outcome often unsatisfactory, particularly regarding the frequent recurrence of symptomatic disease, leading to enormous frustration among patients and practitioners. This review does not address the important issues of transmission, diagnosis, and complications of BV, but focuses on antimicrobial activity of current drugs and their limitations in vitro and in vivo. Recognizing these limitations should allow for either development of new antibiotics or for innovative use of currently available drugs in new study protocols.
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