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Reviewing the Composition of Vaginal Microbiota: Inclusion of Nutrition and Probiotic Factors in the Maintenance of Eubiosis

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2020-02-06

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Barrientos-Durán, Antonio
Fuentes-López, Ana
de Salazar, Adolfo
Plaza-Díaz, Julio
García, Federico

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The vaginal microbiota has importance in preserving vaginal health and defending the host against disease. The advent of new molecular techniques and computer science has allowed researchers to discover microbial composition in depth and associate the structure of vaginal microbial communities. There is a consensus that vaginal flora is grouped into a restricted number of communities, although the structure of the community is constantly changing. Certain Community-Sate Types (CSTs) are more associated with poor reproductive outcomes and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) meanwhile, CSTs dominated by Lactobacillus species-particularly Lactobacillus crispatus-are more related to vaginal health. In this work, we have reviewed how modifiable and non-modifiable factors may affect normal vaginal microbiota homeostasis-including sexual behavior, race or ethnicity, and hygiene. Special interest has been given to how the use of probiotics, diet intake, and use of hormone replacement therapies (HRTs) can potentially impact vaginal microbiota composition.

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Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Digestive System and Oral Physiological Phenomena::Digestive System Physiological Phenomena::Digestive System Processes::Eating
Medical Subject Headings::Check Tags::Female
Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Physiological Phenomena::Physiological Processes::Homeostasis
Medical Subject Headings::Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Therapeutics::Drug Therapy::Hormone Replacement Therapy
Medical Subject Headings::Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Primates::Haplorhini::Catarrhini::Hominidae::Humans
Medical Subject Headings::Technology and Food and Beverages::Food and Beverages::Food::Dietary Supplements::Probiotics
Medical Subject Headings::Health Care::Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation::Quality of Health Care::Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms::Statistics as Topic::Probability::Risk::Risk Factors
Medical Subject Headings::Diseases::Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications::Female Urogenital Diseases::Genital Diseases, Female::Vaginal Diseases::Vaginitis::Vaginosis, Bacterial
Medical Subject Headings::Diseases::Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms::Pathologic Processes::Dysbiosis
Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Microbiological Phenomena::Microbiota
Medical Subject Headings::Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Therapeutics::Nutrition Therapy::Diet Therapy

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Vaginal microbiome, Bacterial communities, Vaginal dysbiosis, Bacterial vaginosis, Risk factor, Nutrition, Probiotics, Hormone replacement therapy, Microbioma, Disbiosis, Vagina, Vaginosis bacteriana, Factores de riesgo, Nutrición

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Barrientos-Durán A, Fuentes-López A, de Salazar A, Plaza-Díaz J, García F. Reviewing the Composition of Vaginal Microbiota: Inclusion of Nutrition and Probiotic Factors in the Maintenance of Eubiosis. Nutrients. 2020 Feb 6;12(2):419