LACTIN-V Phase 2b Bacterial Vaginosis Study Published in the New England Journal of Medicine
May 14, 2020
A new article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) showed that LACTIN-V significantly reduced the recurrence of bacterial vaginosis (BV) in a Phase 2b study conducted at four sites in the U.S. The study was led by Craig Cohen, MD, MPH and Anke Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH of the University of California, San Francisco and supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). LACTIN-V represents the first microbiome-based drug to significantly reduce the recurrence of BV in an FDA-regulated trial.
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