Does vaginal irrigation with saline solution in women with infectious vaginitis contribute to the clinical and microbiological results of antibiotic therapy?

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 195-200

  Derbent, Aysel Uysal ^a   Ulukanlgil, Mustafa ^a   Keskin, Esra Aktepe ^a   Soylu, Gül ^a   Kafal, Hasan ^a  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; Candida; Saline solution; Vaginal irrigation; Vaginitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANDIDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINITIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VAGINAL DISCHARGE; VAGINAL DOUCHING; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860343499     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: 1423002X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332396     Document Type: Article

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