TABLE 1.
Gentamicin protection assaya
| Treatment period | Day |
T. vaginalis SS14
|
T. vaginalis SS15
|
T. vaginalis MPM2
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacterial growth | PCR | Bacterial growth | PCR | Bacterial growth | PCR | ||
| Gentamicin treatment | 1 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| 2 | + | + | + | + | + | + | |
| 3 | + | + | − | + | + | + | |
| 4 | + | + | − | + | + | + | |
| 5 | + | + | − | + | + | + | |
| 6 | + | + | − | − | − | + | |
| 7 | − | + | − | − | − | + | |
| 14 | − | + | − | − | − | + | |
| 21 | − | + | − | − | − | + | |
| 28 | − | + | − | − | − | + | |
| After gentamicin | 1 | − | + | − | − | − | + |
| removal | 4 | − | + | − | − | − | + |
| 7 | + | + | − | − | + | + | |
| 14 | + | + | − | − | + | + | |
a
Colony growth and specific DNA amplification of M. hominis from three T. vaginalis strains during a gentamicin protection assay and after drug removal. +, positive; −, negative.