{"id":97204,"date":"2019-10-08T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/germ-transplant-helps-women-with-tough-to-treat-vaginal-infections"},"modified":"2019-10-08T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:23:12","slug":"germ-transplant-helps-women-with-tough-to-treat-vaginal-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/germ-transplant-helps-women-with-tough-to-treat-vaginal-infections","title":{"rendered":"Germ transplant helps women with tough-to-treat vaginal infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/germ-transplant-helps-women-with-tough-to-treat-vaginal-infections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bacterial vaginosis is a common infection in women that\u2019s usually easily treated with antibiotics. But for those who develop recurrent infections, treatment options have been limited.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Israeli researchers report they were able to put recurrent infections into remission in four out of five women who received a \u201cvaginal microbiome transplant.\u201d The transplant consisted of healthy bacteria collected from the vaginal fluid of donors without the condition, the researchers explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBacterial vaginosis, while not life-risking, is an exceedingly common female disorder that bears a severe toll on women\u2019s lives, including severe discomfort, reduced <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/self-esteem\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">self-esteem<\/a>, problems in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/intimate+relationships\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">intimate relationships<\/a>, social segregation and a variety of risks of developing infectious gynecological and obstetric complications,\u201d said the study\u2019s senior author, Dr. Eran Elinav.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacterial vaginosis is a common infection in women that\u2019s usually easily treated with antibiotics. But for those who develop recurrent infections, treatment options have been limited. Now, Israeli researchers report they were able to put recurrent infections into remission in four out of five women who received a \u201cvaginal microbiome transplant.\u201d The transplant consisted of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}