A dozen scientists just published an initiative to map the ecosystem of the human vagina and its microbiome.
A dozen scientists released a paper calling for the urgent need to map the ecosystem of a vagina for the sake of half the world’s population. According to the authors of a commentary published in Trends in Microbiology, “Western medicine assumes an androcentric perspective at the expense of women. Women’s bodies and knowledge concerning their health have been neglected, controlled, and persecuted for centuries.
”Thus far, the research that has been conducted on this thriving pool of organisms that keep a vagina healthy has shown that a reduction in lactobacilli has been associated with pregnancy complications, including preterm birth, according to the study.Furthermore, a low lactobacilli count and the overgrowth of anaerobic bacteria is the “non-optimal vaginal microbiota condition known as BV.
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