Suspected Heterosexual Transmission of Bacterial Vaginosis Without Seminal Fluid Exposure

Overview

Journal Sex Transm Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2013 Dec 17

PMID 24335744

Citations 8

Authors

Christina A Muzny

Jane R Schwebke

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Abstract

This report describes a case of suspected heterosexual transmission of bacterial vaginosis to a woman from a male partner who had undergone a radical prostatectomy. The most likely method of transmission in this case was through contact with infected desquamated epithelial cells from the male partner's distal urethra or coronal sulcus.

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