Suspected heterosexual transmission of bacterial vaginosis without seminal fluid exposure

Sex Transm Dis. 2014 Jan;41(1):58-60. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000057.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Intravaginal
  • Anti-Infective Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Epithelial Cells / microbiology*
  • Extramarital Relations
  • Female
  • Heterosexuality
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Metronidazole / therapeutic use*
  • Middle Aged
  • Prostatectomy
  • Sexual Behavior
  • Sexual Partners*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Urethra / microbiology*
  • Vaginosis, Bacterial / drug therapy
  • Vaginosis, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Vaginosis, Bacterial / transmission*

Substances

  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Metronidazole