Relationship between nugent score and vaginal epithelial exfoliation.

Clue cells characteristic of bacterial vaginosis (BV) are thought to arise due to exfoliation of the vaginal epithelium; however, there is little published data connecting total numbers of epithelial cells to markers of BV. The purpose of this study was to enumerate exfoliated epithelial cells (inde...

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Main Authors: Courtney P Amegashie, Nicole M Gilbert, Jeffrey F Peipert, Jenifer E Allsworth, Warren G Lewis, Amanda L Lewis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5451030?pdf=render