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BMC Infectious Diseases BioMed Central Research article Open Access Association between Lactobacillus species and bacterial vaginosis-related bacteria, and bacterial vaginosis scores in pregnant Japanese women Renuka Tamrakar, Takashi Yamada*, Itsuko Furuta, Kazutoshi Cho, Mamoru Morikawa, Hideto Yamada, Noriaki Sakuragi and Hisanori Minakami Address: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Kita-ku N14 W6, Sapporo, Japan, 060- 8638 Email: Renuka Tamrakar - renuka74@med.hokudai.ac.jp; Takashi Yamada* - yamataka@med.hokudai.ac.jp; Itsuko Furuta - furuchan@med.hokudai.ac.jp; Kazutoshi Cho - chotarou@med.hokudai.ac.jp; Mamoru Morikawa - mmamoru@med.hokudai.ac.jp; Hideto Yamada - yhideto@med.hokudai.ac.jp; Noriaki Sakuragi - sakuragi@med.hokudai.ac.jp; Hisanori Minakami - minasho@med.hokudai.ac.jp * Corresponding author Published: 7 November 2007 Received: 20 February 2007 Accepted: 7 November 2007 BMC Infectious Diseases 2007, 7:128 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-7-128 This article is available from: /1471-2334/7/128 © 2007 Tamrakar et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Bacterial vaginosis (BV), the etiology of which is still uncertain, increases the risk of preterm birth. Recent PCR-based studies suggested that BV is associated with complex vaginal