Utility of Microscopic Techniques and Quantitative Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Diagnosis of Vaginal Microflora Alterations
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Summary
It is demonstrated that wet mount microscopy is a superior method for BV diagnosis and the PCR test under study showed a high sensitivity and can be used for discrimination between normal flora and BV.
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- 2015-04-01
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- 36
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Environmental science
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