Reyna FJ, Valdés RM, Casanova RG, Ortiz-Ibarra FJ, Villeda GG, Beltrán ZM

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ABSTRACT

Objectives:Our purpose was to study the risk factors and clinical features from obstetrics and gynecology patients with gram positive long rods in vaginal smears. Study design:Three hundred patients and 300 controls were study reprospectively.Patients without positive bacterial cultures,and microscopic examination of the discharge but with gram positive long rods (› 40mm)in vaginal smears,were cases and patients without both positive bacterial cultures and microscopic examination of the discgarge,without grampositive long rods in vaginal smears were controls. Results: To be a ginecology patients,used of antimicrobials and oral anticonceptives were significatives risk factors.The vaginal discharge and vulvar burning were significative clinical features. Conclusions. Emphasis in given to vaginal wet smear analysis in patients without clinical improvement or persistent simptomatology is a necessity.

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