Extended antimicrobial treatment of bacterial vaginosis combined with human lactobacilli to find the best treatment and minimize the risk of relapses

BMC Infectious Diseases

Research Article

Erik Brandsborg¹  Urban Forsum²  Per-Göran Larsson³  Sonal Pendharkar⁴  Kasper Krogh Andersen⁴  Harold Marcotte⁴  Lennart Hammarström⁴  Salmir Nasic⁵ 

[1] Bifodan AS, Bogbinderivej 6, DK-3390, Hundested, Denmark;Clinical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, SE-581 85, Linköping, Sweden;Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Kärnsjukhuset, Skaraborg hospital and University of Skövde, SE-541 85, Skövde, Sweden;Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, SE-141 86, Stockholm, Sweden;FoU Skas, Skaraborg hospital, SE-541 85, Skövde, Sweden;

关键词: Lactobacillus;    Sexual Partner;    Metronidazole;    Bacterial Vaginosis;    Lactobacillus Strain;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2334-11-223

 received in 2011-02-23, accepted in 2011-08-19,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe primary objective of this study was to investigate if extended antibiotic treatment against bacterial vaginosis (BV) together with adjuvant lactobacilli treatment could cure BV and, furthermore, to investigate factors that could cause relapse.MethodsIn all, 63 consecutive women with bacterial vaginosis diagnosed by Amsel criteria were offered a much more aggressive treatment of BV than used in normal clinical practice with repeated antibiotic treatment with clindamycin and metronidazole together with vaginal gelatine capsules containing different strains of lactobacilli both newly characterised and a commercial one (109 freeze-dried bacteria per capsule). Oral clindamycin treatment was also given to the patient's sexual partner.ResultsThe cure rate was 74.6% after 6 months. The patients were then followed as long as possible or until a relapse. The cure rate was 65.1% at 12 months and 55.6% after 24 months. There was no significant difference in cure rate depending on which Lactobacillus strains were given to the women or if the women were colonised by lactobacilli. The most striking factor was a new sex partner during the follow up period where the Odds Ratio of having a relapse was 9.3 (2.8-31.2) if the patients had a new sex partner during the observation period.ConclusionsThe study shows that aggressive treatment of the patient with antibiotics combined with specific Lactobacillus strain administration and partner treatment can provide long lasting cure. A striking result of our study is that change of partner is strongly associated with relapse of BV.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01245322

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