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Despite the availability of BV NAATs, traditional methods of BV diagnosis, including the Amsel criteria, Nugent score, and the Affirm VP III assay, remain useful for diagnosing symptomatic BV because of their lower cost and ability to provide a rapid diagnosis.
12 sie 2024 · Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common cause of abnormal vaginal discharge in reproductive-age females. Treatment is aimed at relieving symptoms, although many individuals are asymptomatic. Of those with symptoms, abnormal vaginal discharge and fishy odor are typical.
1 mar 2018 · Bacterial vaginosis is treated with oral metronidazole, intravaginal metronidazole, or intravaginal clindamycin.
Clinical features. About 50–85% of women with T. vaginalis infection may be asymptomatic (45, 46). Among these asymptomatic women, 30–50% will develop symptoms within the subsequent six months (47).
5 paź 2018 · Both WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend a single 2 g dose of oral metronidazole or tinidazole as first-line treatment and a 7-day dose of oral metronidazole (400 mg or 500 mg twice daily for 7 days) as second-line treatment for Trichomonas vaginalis infections. 7,8 In most settings, metronidazole is used ...
1 kwi 2011 · A Cochrane review of 24 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) showed that clindamycin and metronidazole (Flagyl) are equally effective, achieving clinical cure in 91 and 92 percent of cases ...
1 lut 2022 · Learning Objectives: On complication of this article, the reader should be able to: 1) recognize common characteristics and symptoms of vaginitis/vaginosis; 2) discuss the evaluation and diagnosis of vaginitis/vaginosis; and 3) review management of bacterial vaginitis, Candida vaginitis, trichomoniasis, desquamative inflammatory vaginitis, and g...
