“…Two molecular techniques, PCR-DGGE and real-time PCR, were combined to achieve a detailed picture of vaginal ecology under normal and abnormal conditions. This integrated approach has been recently proposed for monitoring the effect of prebiotics, probiotics, and symbiotics on the fecal microbiota of healthy humans (37). Consistent with data from previous studies (4, 10, 12, 24, 41), our DGGE data showed that the vaginal bacterial floras in healthy women were stable over time and dominated by a single species or group of closely related species of Lactobacillus (L. iners, L. acidophilus, L. gasseri, and L. vaginalis).…”