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Bacterial identification of the vaginal microbiota in Ecuadorian pregnant teenagers: an exploratory analysis.
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- Editorial: Vaginal dysbiosis and biofilms, volume II.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
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- Cervicovaginal microbiota: a promising direction for prevention and treatment in cervical cancer.Infectious agents and cancer · 2024Review
- Effect of stress urinary incontinence on vaginal microbial communities.BMC microbiology · 2024Article
- Vaginal microbiomes of breast cancer survivors treated with aromatase inhibitors with and without vulvovaginal symptoms.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Microbiome alterations in women with pelvic organ prolapse and after anatomical restorative interventions.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Clustering Analysis of the Multi-Microbial Consortium byFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Article
- Vaginal microbiota evaluation and prevalence of key pathogens in ecuadorian women: an epidemiologic analysis.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Association between the vaginal microbiome and high-risk human papillomavirus infection in pregnant Chinese women.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundBacterial vaginosis (BV) is a microbial imbalance (i.e., dysbiosis) that can produce serious medical effects in women at childbearing age. Little is known, however, about the incidence of BV or vaginal microbiota dysbiosis in pregnant teenagers in low and middle-income countries such as Ecuador. The scope of this exploratory analysis was to study the relationship between epidemiologic and microbial risk factors. Among the microbiology risk factors this study investigated five
methodsNinety-five healthy adolescent pregnant women, visiting a secondary level hospital in Quito, Ecuador, were enrolled into the study in 2015. The enrolled patients were between 10 to 13 weeks of pregnancy. Four epidemiological risk factors were collected in a survey: age, civil status, sexual partners and condom use. Also, vaginal pH was measured as a health risk factor. DNA was extracted from endocervical and exocervical epithelia from all the patients' samples. PCR analysis was performed in order to characterize the presence of the eight bacterial species known as risk factors for BV development, targeting three anaerobes and five
resultsThe 95 vaginal microflora samples of these teenagers were analyzed. Two of the bacterial species known to cause BV: DISCUSSION: This work identified a high pH as a risk factor for BV anaerobes' presence in adolescent pregnant women. Moreover, this study identified
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