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Detection of Atopobium vaginae in Postmenopausal Women by Cultivation-Independent Methods Warrants Further Investigation

The Lawson Health Research Institute,¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology,² Department of Family Medicine,³ Department of Surgery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada⁴

Received 9 October 2003/ Returned for modification 30 December 2003/ Accepted 6 January 2004

We sequenced 16S rRNA genes from the vaginal swab contents of a postmenopausal woman with asymptomatic bacterial vaginosis (BV). Sequences from Atopobium vaginae were the most commonly detected. In a survey of 35 other postmenopausal women, this organism was detected in 44% with BV but not in any subjects deemed healthy.

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