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This study was planned to examine the association of sexually transmitted infections with the intermediate Nugent Score.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"st2\">\n<jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The study included was conducted to include females presenting with vaginal discharge, burning micturition, itching, lower abdominal pain and infertility. The Nugent scoring was used to categorize patients into those having normal flora, intermediate or bacterial vaginosis. Conventional and molecular techniques targeting <jats:italic>Trichomonas vaginalis<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Chlamydia trachomatis<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Ureaplasma urealyticum<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Mycoplasma hominis<\/jats:italic>, Syphilis, <jats:italic>Neisseria gonorrhoeae<\/jats:italic> and vulvovaginal candidiasis were performed.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"st3\">\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>A total of 3,531 clinical samples were collected from females with a median age of 28.0 years. The number of patients with bacterial vaginosis and intermediate Nugent Score and positive cases were significantly higher in the 21\u201335 years age group (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.0001). We observed that the likelihood of test results being positive for <jats:italic>Trichomonas vaginalis<\/jats:italic> was higher (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.05), as the abnormality of the vaginal flora increased. <jats:italic>Mycoplasma hominis<\/jats:italic> was observed to be significantly higher in the intermediate Nugent Score group than the BV-positive patients (0.6 vs 0.2, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.002). The number of vulvovaginal candidiasis cases in both the bacterial vaginosis-negative and bacterial vaginosis-positive groups were nearly the same (9.3 vs 9.8%).<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"st4\">\n<jats:title>Limitation<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Individual follow-up couldn\u2019t be performed on the patients.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"st5\">\n<jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>We observed that the dysbiosis in vaginal microbiota, with an increase in Nugent scoring, was significantly associated with an increased risk for the acquisition of sexually transmitted infections and vulvovaginal candidiasis.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.25259\/ijdvl_775_2022","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,18]],"date-time":"2023-07-18T05:13:34Z","timestamp":1689657214000},"page":"296-301","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25259\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Association of intermediate Nugent 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