ISSN Print 2500–1094
ISSN Online 2542–1204
BIOMEDICAL JOURNAL OF PIROGOV UNIVERSITY (MOSCOW, RUSSIA)
REVIEW
Features of Vaginal Microecosystem in Gestational Period: a Literature Review
About authors
1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical Faculty,
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
2 Laboratory of Microbiology of Latent Infections,
Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Karina Bondarenko
Ivankovskoye shosse, d. 7, Moscow, Russia, 125367; ur.liam@dnobanirak
Received: 2014-10-07
Accepted: 2014-11-10
Published online: 2017-01-05
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The analysis of recent data on the study of the vaginal microbiota with normal microbiocenosis in pregnant and nonpregnant women is presented. Attention is drawn to particular relationships within the microbial community inhabiting the vaginal microecosystem of clinically healthy women during gestation. Some controversial issues concerning mechanisms for maintaining of vaginal microbiocenosis with Lactobacillus spp. are discussed.
Keywords: Lactobacillus spp, gestation, vaginal microflora