The successful genetic selection for higher milk production caused a dramatic decline in the reproductive performance of dairy cows all over the world during the last decades. Achievement of optimum herd reproductive performance (calving interval of 12 months or 13 months with the first calf born at 24 months of age) requires concentrated management activities especially during the first 100 da...

BACKGROUND Abnormalities in menstrual cycle is the most common presenting symptom in Gynaecology out-patient. Dilatation and curettage has been the diagnostic investigation of choice for decades in such cases. With the advent of new more valid and safe methods, it has been replaced by hysteroscopy as gold standard. The objective of this study was to know the sensitivity and specificity of hyste...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and safety of a 7-day course of treatment with oral grepafloxacin, 400 mg once daily, and oral doxycycline, 100 mg twice daily, in patients with chlamydial cervicitis. METHODS Women aged 18 years or older attending 17 sexually transmitted disease clinics in the United States who had clinical signs of mucopurulent cervicitis or who had a recent positive cultur...

OBJECTIVE To test the recommendation from the Canadian guidelines for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) that mucopurulent endocervical discharge and 10 or more polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) per high-power field of a Gram-stained endocervical smear or, when Gram staining is not possible, the presence of endocervical discharge and one of edema, erythema or induced mucosal bleeding of the...

The overall agreement between different criteria for cervicitis in women infected with Chlamydia trachomatis and/or Mycoplasma genitalium, and in women who tested negative was examined. Women attending a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases were enrolled because of sexual partners' suspected chlamydia infection. M. genitalium was tested in a sample of first-catch urine and an endocervical s...

Mycoplasma genitalium is an emerging sexually transmitted pathogen implicated in urethritis in men and several inflammatory reproductive tract syndromes in women including cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), and infertility. This comprehensive review critically examines epidemiologic studies of M. genitalium infections in women with the goal of assessing the associations with reprodu...

Background: Cervical PAP smear examinationis an idealinvestigationfor early detection of benign and malignant conditions uterus because cervical infections are commonly encountered problems in women during their reproductive age some cases post-menopausal.Method: Out 3980 female patients aged between 21 to 80 years 3910 (98.2%) had pathological significance. were prepared by using disposable ay...