Vulvovaginitis in childhood

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-137

  Dei, Metella ^a   Di Maggio, Floriana ^b   Di Paolo, Gilda ^c   Bruni, Vincenzina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Adolescenbt Health Services   (Italy)

^c Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Service   (Italy)

Author keywords

opportunistic pathogens; pathogens; sexually transmitted diseases; vulvitis; vulvovaginitis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BORIC ACID; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLOTRIMAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN ETHYLSUCCINATE; FAMCICLOVIR; FLUCONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; HYDROCORTISONE; IMIQUIMOD; LACTOSE; MACROGOL; MEBENDAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROMESTRIENE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; PYRANTEL EMBONATE; RIFAMPICIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALACICLOVIR;

ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CANDIDIASIS; CAUTERIZATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CONSTIPATION; CRYOTHERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENITAL HERPES; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MYCOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPERINFECTION; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINA SECRETION; VIRUS INFECTION; VULVA DISEASE; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS; VULVODYNIA; VULVOVAGINITIS; YERSINIA INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; CHILD; ENTEROBIASIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VULVOVAGINITIS;

EID: 77949268311     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2009.09.010     Document Type: Review

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