OBJECTIVE This study determined the prevalence and socio-demographic characteristics of bacterial vaginosis (BV) among pregnant women with abnormal vaginal discharge. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional study. SETTING University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS Vaginal swab samples and data on epidemiological risk factors were collected from 400 consecutive pregn...

OBJECTIVE Pregnant women are susceptible to vaginal colonization and infection by yeast. The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence of Candida spp in high vaginal swabs of pregnant women and their antifungal susceptibility. METHODS High vaginal swab samples received from Serdang Hospital, Selangor, Malaysia during 2011 initially had microscopic examination, Gram-staining and fun...

Duplicate vaginal swabs were obtained from patients who attended obstetric or gynecologic clinics affiliated with the Magee Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh. One swab was cultured semiquantitatively on 5% sheep blood agar to detect group B streptococci (GBS). The other swab was subjected to a rapid method (25 min) for antigen detection and micronitrous acid exposure to extract the GBS antigen, fol...

This study was concerned the describe of an current PCR method for specific detection Tichomonas vaginalis DNA into a rapid nested assay, and to estimate recent prevalence T. according studying different factors that effect on vaginal trichomoniasis in women complaining discharge. Vaginal swab samples were collected from 100 patients lived at Wasit province, during period January, 2022 July, 20...

Objectives: To evaluate the usefulness of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) in women with preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM) in the prediction of funisitis and early-onset neonatal sepsis (EONS), to determine a CRP cutoff value for their prediction, and to identify other significant risk factors associated with funisitis and EONS. Methods: This was a retrospective study conducted in a ...

OBJECTIVE Cervical cancer screening coverage remains insufficient in most countries. Testing self-collected samples for high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) could be an alternative to the Pap smear, but costs, sampling methods and transport issues hamper its wide use. Our objective was to compare diagnostic accuracy of 2 vaginal self-collection methods, a dry swab (vsc-DRY) or swab in liquid...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate CHROMagar Candida (CA), a new yeast differential medium, for yeast isolation in a clinical laboratory for the routine examination of high vaginal swabs. METHODS Results of high vaginal swab cultures processed in a standard manner on plates containing equal halves of Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA) and CA were compared. Non-Candida albicans yeast isolates were further speci...

Background: Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection can occur asymptomatically and due to the growth requirements in the laboratory, it can be easily missed even if it is symptomatic. Isolating the organism using conventional laboratory procedures has yielded varying degrees of sensitivity and specificity. Since there is paucity of information on the prevalence rate of the organism using nucleic acid a...

Maternal prenatal screening for group B streptococci (GBS) followed by offering of intrapartum chemoprophylaxis to carriers is one of the strategies used to reduce the incidence of neonatal early-onset GBS infections. Culturing of vaginal and anorectal swab specimens in selective broth is the screening procedure recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This technique is se...