Sampling for vaginal candidosis: how good is it?

  • 1 September 1994
    • journal article
    • clinical trial
    • Vol. 5  (5) , 356-8
Abstract
In defined patient populations attending a genitourinary medicine department, screening for vaginal candidosis resulted in 26.3% positive rate. Microscopy using Gram-stained slide was useful in early diagnosis and resulted in the detection of 64.8% of symptomatic cases. Samples from the anterior fornix proved most sensitive for culture diagnosis while the left lateral vaginal wall proved least sensitive (positive predictive value 0.88 cf 0.81).

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