Three-day clotrimazole treatment in candidal vulvovaginitis.
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Three-day clotrimazole treatment in candidal vulvovaginitis.
The accepted modern practice is to treat each sexually transmitted disease with the shortest possible course of treatment consistent with success. In candidal vulvovaginitis, six days is the minimum period that has so far been found to be successful, but we report here a further reduction to three days. Patients were given two clotrimazole pessaries nightly for three consecutive nights; the ove...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 1977
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.53.2.126