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VAGINAL USE ONLY, by applicator: 2 x 10^9 CFU per dose. The phase 2b regimen was one dose daily for 5 days in week 1, then twice weekly for a further 10 weeks — always started after a completed course of vaginal metronidazole gel.

Any time

Vaginal applicator delivering L. crispatus CTV-05

30grams

Any time · with food (preferred)

Whey Protein Isolate

• Not established for anyone outside the trial populations — otherwise-healthy non-pregnant women aged 14-45
• Immunocompromise or immunosuppressive therapy (chemotherapy, transplant medication, high-dose corticosteroids, advanced HIV) — a live organism that no trial has studied in this population; use only under clinician supervision
• Critical illness, an indwelling central venous catheter, or a disrupted mucosal barrier — no vaginal-lactobacillus infection has been reported, but oral probiotics have caused documented bloodstream infection in these settings

• Vaginal metronidazole gel

• Milk allergy (use plant-based alternatives)
• Severe lactose intolerance (use isolate or lactose-free)

• Levodopa
• Levothyroxine
• Alendronate (bisphosphonates)