Episode 181: Sexual health and the vaginal microbiome

What does a healthy vaginal microbiome look like? Are store-bought vaginal probiotics backed by science? How do these microbes interact with sexually transmitted infections (STIs)? 🦠Research is uncovering more and more about the relationship between the vaginal microbiome and sexual health. That's why this month, I spoke with Prof Wilhelmina Huston, a microbiologist specialising in STIs at the University of Melbourne, Australia, to discuss what science knows so far. 🎧Listen in wherever you get your podcasts 🔗If you’d like to read the review in Microbial Genomics you can do so by following this link A full, auto generated, transcript of the podcast is available on our website here

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Episode 181: Sexual health and the vaginal microbiome is an episode from Microbe Talk by Microbiology Society.

This episode is 16:38 long.

This episode was published on Feb 13, 2026.

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