Evaluation of Nugent and Amsel criteria for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis;Evaluación de los criterios de Nugent y Amsel para el diagnóstico de vaginosis bacteriana

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 128, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 767-771

  Navarrete W, Paola ^b   Domínguez Y, Mariana ^b   Castro I, Erica ^a   Zemelman Z, Raúl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Vaginal diseases; Vaginal smears; Vaginosis, bacterial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS;

CHILE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VAGINAL SMEARS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0034219902     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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