New Impacts Sti 1 in 3 women: The landmark study reveals that men are the missing bond

Researchers at Monash and Alfred Health University of Melbourne Sexual Health Center say their results today in New England Journal of Medicine, Hold the key to descending stubborn recurrence and suffering among women.

The authors of Professor Catriona Bradshaw and Dr. Lenka Vodstrcil say that the standard practice of BV treatment as an imbalance (disturbance) in the vaginal microbiome means that more than 50 percent of women recover it within three months from the standard treatment of an oral antibiotic.

In their process of 164 couples with BV in monogamous relationships, they discovered that the treatment of BV as sti, with both Sexual partners treated simultaneously, gets significantly higher healing rates than the current practice of treating only women.

In fact, they stopped the study earlier, when it became clear that BV recurrence was halved in the partner treatment group compared to treating single women.

“This successful intervention is relatively cheap and short and has the potential for the first time to improve not only BV healing for women, but it opens new interesting opportunities for BV prevention and preventing serious complications associated with BV,” said Professor Bradshaw.

In the multicentric randomized study, all women received first -line recommended antibiotics. The male partners were randomly assigned to the treatment of the partner, where they received both an oral antibiotic and a topic antibiotic cream for a week or at a control group. The control group for this study has only received treatment with female antibiotics and without treating the partner, which is the global recommended practice. Couples took antibiotics for only a week, but were then followed for 12 weeks to determine how effective this intervention was in the healing of BV for 3 months.

Dr. Vodstrcil said that BV has already been known to increase the risk of contracting other ITS. “I have been suspected for a long time that it is a sexually transmitted infection (STI), because it has a similar incubation period (after sex) in the majority of ITS and is associated with the same risk factors as sts as Chlamydia, such as changing the sexual partner and not using condoms.”

Professor Bradshaw said that while studies have shown that men can shelter bacterial species associated with bacterial vaginosis on the skin of the penis and inside the penis, previous studies that included male partners have not shown improved healing rates at their female partners.

“This has been interpreted as evidence against sexual transmission,” said Professor Bradshaw. “However, these studies have had design limitations and none used a combination of oral and topical antibiotics to properly clarify BV bacteria, especially from the penis site.

“Our process has shown that reinfection from partners causes a lot of BV recurrence experiences and provides evidence that BV is actually a sti.”

“Part of the difficulty of determining if BV is sexually transmitted was that we still do not know exactly what the bacteria are, but the progress in genomic sequence helps us to approach this mystery,” said Professor Bradshaw.

The results have already led to Melbourne Sexual Health Center to change their clinical practice to treat couples. A new website for professionals and health consumers provides all the necessary information to prescribe and access the treatment of partners.

“This information has been co-projects with consumers and participants in judicial and health professionals to make them accessible to all,” said Professor Bradshaw. “Changes in national and international treatment guides always require time, so I have felt an obligation to provide accurate and downloadable information at the time of the public in which the results are published.”