The VI-SENSE-vaginal discharge self-test to facilitate management of vaginal symptoms

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 195, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1351-1356

  Geva, Adam ^a   Bornstein, Jacob ^b   Dan, Michael ^c   Shoham, Hadar Kessary ^d   Sobel, Jack D ^e  

^a SBC Women's Health Centers of Lin   (Israel)

^b WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d Common Sense ^*  (Israel)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Vulvovaginal symptoms; Vulvovaginitis

Indexed keywords

AMINE;

ACIDITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPER; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINITIS; VULVOVAGINAL DISEASE;

ADULT; CANDIDIASIS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS; VAGINAL DISCHARGE; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; VULVOVAGINITIS;

EID: 33750290750     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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