General Obstetrics and Gynecology ObstetricsAntibiotic treatment of bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy: A meta-analysis☆
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Material and methods
In June 2001, we searched MEDLINE from 1966, EMBASE from 1988, and SCIENCE CITATION INDEX EXPANDED from 1997 to identify all literature that was included under (vaginitis or vaginosis or vagina* infection or vagina* inflammation) and (pregnan* or gravid* or birth? or labor?r?) and (antibiotic* or antimicrob*). The following criteria were used to select studies for inclusion: article (original published English-language report), study design (randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial),
Results
Ten studies were included in this meta-analysis.6, 7, 8, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 Study populations of two studies overlapped, so results were available for 3969 individual patients.17, 18 Because the study of Kurkinen-Räty et al18 was the report of one study center that was included in a larger multicenter study reported by Kekki et al,17 we generally extracted information from the larger multicenter study only. Any information that was not available in the multicenter, but only in the
Comment
The results of this meta-analysis show that strategies of screening and treating pregnant women for BV remain controversial. Such a strategy was suggested generally for high-risk patients with a previous preterm delivery. However, there is now a large degree of heterogeneity among the studies that include high-risk patients and thus a large degree of uncertainty about the true effect that the antibiotic treatment of BV would have in this patient population.
The situation is much clearer for
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