Lactobacillus crispatus VPro 31 and Improved Vaginal Epithelial Cell Adherence

• Adherence of Lactobacillus crispatus to vaginal epithelial cells from women with or without a history of recurrent urinary tract infection.

  • 2006-11
  • Journal of Urology 176(5)
  • • L. Kwok
    • A. Stapleton
    • W. Stamm
    • S. Hillier
    • Cheryl L. Wobbe
    • K. Gupta

  • PubMed: 17070251
  • DOI: 10.1016/J.JURO.2006.07.014

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Vaginal Epithelial Cell Adherence

  • Low evidence

  L. crispatus CTV-05 adhered in high numbers to vaginal epithelial cells from women with recurrent urinary tract infection (mean adherence of 50.5 lactobacilli per vaginal epithelial cell) and controls (mean adherence of 39.4 lactobacilli per vaginal epithelial cell).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large