{"id":2163,"date":"2019-03-18T21:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T21:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:00:59","slug":"vaginal-secretions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/vaginal-secretions\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Findings in Vaginal Secretions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vaginal infections affect a woman\u2019s quality of life by causing frustration, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, and vulvovaginal discomfort.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Diagnostic Findings in Vaginal Secretions<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Variable<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Healthy Vaginal Flora<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bacterial Vaginosis<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Desquamative Inflammatory<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Vaginitis<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>pH<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt;4.7<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u22654.7<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u22654.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Amine odor<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Negative<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Positive<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Negative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Clue cells<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Absent<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Present<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Absent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Epithelial cells<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Mature squamous cells<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Mature squamous cells<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Immature parabasal cells<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Neutrophils<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Absent<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Absent<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Present<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Flora<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Sparse monomorphic bacilli<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Abundant polymorphic coccobacilli<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Abundant polymorphic cocci and bacilli<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Microbiome<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Lactobacilli<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Gardnerella vaginalis, Atopobium vaginae, others<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Escherichia coli, group B streptococci, others<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CST*<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">I, II,V<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">III, IV<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">IV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>* Community state type (CST) I is dominated by Lactobacillus crispatus, CST II by L. gasseri, CST III by L. iners, and CST V by L. jensenii; CST IV is composed of a polymicrobial mixture of strict and facultative anaerobes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Paavonen J, Brunham RC. Bacterial Vaginosis and Desquamative Inflammatory Vaginitis.\u00a0N Engl J Med. 2018 Dec 6;379(23):2246-2254. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30575452\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bagnall P, Rizzolo D. Bacterial vaginosis: A practical review.\u00a0JAAPA. 2017 Dec;30(12):15-21.<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29135564\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> [Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bradshaw CS, Plummer EL, Muzny CA, Mitchell CM, Fredricks DN, Herbst-Kralovetz MM, Vodstrcil LA. Bacterial vaginosis. Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2025 Jun 19;11(1):43. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40537474\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Mar 15, 2019.<br \/>\nUp-date Feb 9, 2026.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[14,13,276,277,280,279,278,281],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obstetrics-gynecology","tag-diagnostic","tag-diagnostico","tag-findings","tag-hallazgos","tag-secreciones","tag-secretions","tag-vaginal","tag-vaginales"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10648,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/10648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}