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