vaginal discharge/proline

BACKGROUND Diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis (BV) in resource-poor primary health care settings is often overlooked; there is a need for a cheap, rapid, objective point-of-care diagnostic test. OBJECTIVE The goal was to determine the prevalence of BV and to evaluate the performance of a new

BACKGROUND Bacterial vaginosis is a syndrome occurring in women of reproductive age, characterized by abnormal vaginal discharge and associated with gynecological and obstetric problems during pregnancy. OBJECTIVE This study assesses the value of proline aminopeptidase (L-Pap) detection and DNA

We examined subjective and objective correlates among 67 women with symptomatic bacterial vaginosis before and after treatment with intravaginal clindamycin or placebo. We found no preponderance of any sexual practices among these patients. Nine patients (13.4%) had had hysterectomy. Whereas odor