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The diagnosis and obstetrical implications of bacterial vaginosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2002

RF Lamont
Affiliation:
Northwick Park and St Mark's NHS Trust, Harrow, Middlesex and Royal Postgraduate Medical School Hammersmith Hospital, London

Abstract

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is an important polymicrobial state of abnormal genital tract colonisation which is easy to diagnose and easy to treat but which is poorly understood and therefore ignored or neglected by clinicians. Despite this, or perhaps as a result, BV is increasingly being associated with adverse sequelae in the practice of both obstetrics and gynaecology.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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