Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14 and Improved Cure of Bacterial Vaginosis

• Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and L. reuteri RC-14 to prevent or cure bacterial vaginosis among women with HIV.

  • 2010-11-02
  • RCT
  • International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 111(3)
  • • Ruben Hummelen
    • John Changalucha
    • Nicodemus L Butamanya
    • Adrian Cook
    • J Dik F Habbema
    • Gregor Reid

  • PubMed: 20801446
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2010.07.008

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Cure of Bacterial Vaginosis

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  We did not find an enhanced cure rate of BV among women with HIV treated with adjuvant probiotics to metronidazole treatment.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  daily probiotics for 6 months (exact dose not specified in abstract)