Ex­per­i­men­tal in­jec­tion of 'good' bac­te­ria sig­nif­i­cant­ly cut bac­te­r­i­al vagi­nosis re­cur­rence rate — study

Bac­te­r­i­al vagi­nosis (BV), an in­flam­ma­to­ry con­di­tion caused by the pro­lif­er­a­tion of “bad” bac­te­ria nat­u­ral­ly found in the vagi­na, can af­fect up to half the women of re­pro­duc­tive age world­wide. De­spite treat­ment with an­tibi­otics, up to three in four women get re­cur­rent in­fec­tions with­in three months. But in­ject­ing a ‘good’ bac­teri­um to sub­due its dele­te­ri­ous peers can slash that high re­cur­rence rate by a third, new clin­i­cal tri­al da­ta sug­gest.

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