Lactic acid-containing products for bacterial vaginosis and their impact on the vaginal microbiota: A systematic review

• Erica L. Plummer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: erica.plummer@monash.edu

  Affiliations Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Hospital, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5710-2671

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• Catriona S. Bradshaw,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Hospital, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

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• Michelle Doyle,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Hospital, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

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• Christopher K. Fairley,

  Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Hospital, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

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• Gerald L. Murray,

  Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Women’s Centre for Infectious Diseases, The Royal Women’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3330-4433

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• Deborah Bateson,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Family Planning New South Wales, Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia, Discipline of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

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• Lindi Masson,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, South Africa

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• Josephine Slifirski,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Hospital, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

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• Gilda Tachedjian,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Lenka A. Vodstrcil

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Hospital, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3679-9195

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