Infectious etiology of vaginal discharge in women attended at the clinical
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.hm.323250Keywords:
vaginal discharge, bacterial vaginosis, vulvovaginal candidiasis, trichomoniasisAbstract
Objective: To determine the infectious etiology of vaginal discharge in women treated at VID Clinical Laboratory (LCVID) in Medellín.
Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective study, in which LCVID database was consulted from January 2014 to December 2015 to determine which infectious agents were identified in women who had direct examination and Gram in vaginal discharge. For this study, the Laboratory followed a standardized protocol to establish the objective of this research project.
Results: A total of 4,738 records of women who received care during the consulted period was analyzed. Data were stratified according to age ranges, based on risk factors for the entities studied in our protocol: women from 16 to 25, 26 to 35, 36 to 45, 46 to 55 and over 56 years of age. From the total of samples processed, 39 cases (0.83%) were diagnosed with vaginal trichomoniasis (TV), 2009 cases (42.4%) were diagnosed with vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), 1343 cases (28.3%) were diagnosed with Bacterial vaginosis (BV), and no infectious etiology was found in 1357 cases (28.4%).
Conclusions: Even though this is a retrospective and descriptive study, the size of the sample shows it as a robust study for analysis purposes. It is important to note that Trichomonas vaginalis was not an important agent, but Candida spp. ranked first, followed by bacterial vaginosis.
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