{"id":2488,"date":"2009-03-08T20:48:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T20:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/ginvaginosis\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:09:53","slug":"ginvaginosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/ginvaginosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsel&#8217;s Diagnostic Criteria for Bacterial Vaginosis"},"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><\/p>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Three of four criteria must be met; establishes accurate diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis in 90 percent of affected women.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Homogeneous vaginal discharge (color and amount may vary)<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Amine (fishy) odor when potassium hydroxide solution is added to vaginal secretions (commonly called the &#8220;whiff test&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Presence of clue cells (greater than 20%) on microscopy*<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Vaginal pH greater than 4.5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">* Highly significant criterion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<ol style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Egan ME, Lipsky MS. Diagnosis of vaginitis. Am Fam Physician. 2000 Sep 1;62(5):1095-104. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/10997533\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Amsel R, Totten PA, Spiegel CA, Chen KC, Eschenbach D, Holmes KK. Nonspecific vaginitis. Diagnostic criteria and microbial and epidemiologic associations. Am J Med. 1983 Jan;74(1):14-22. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/6600371\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Section1\">Created: Aug 16, 2005<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/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":[1485,1077,1076,16,15,14,13,1484,1486],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obstetrics-gynecology","tag-amsel","tag-bacterial","tag-bacteriana","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-diagnostic","tag-diagnostico","tag-gynecology","tag-vaginosis"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","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=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8989,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}