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bacterial vaginosis

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bacterial vaginosis
n.
Vaginal infection resulting from a change in the balance of naturally occurring bacteria, allowing disease-causing bacteria, especially Gardnerella vaginalis, to predominate.


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1) In a yearlong longitudinal study of nonpregnant 15-44-year-old women attending an Alabama clinic, the odds that a woman had bacterial vaginosis at the time of any given visit increased by 10% for every one-point increase in her score on a standard scale measuring psychosocial stress.
He and Jeanne Marrazzo of Seattle's Harborview Medical Center took bacterial samples from the vaginas of 36 healthy women and 35 women with bacterial vaginosis.
You could have a different infection, such as bacterial vaginosis (the most common vaginal infection).
 
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