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Symptoms of vaginitis are nonspecific, and neither self-diagnosis nor diagnosis by a physician is reliable without laboratory confirmation. The management of vaginitis remains largely empirical, and many assume that vaginitis is never life-threatening and that empirical therapy is always harmless. Vulvovaginitis, although frequently the result of infection, may also have noninfectious causes (Table 1); moreover, mixed infections are not uncommon.

View this table: [in this window] [in a new window]   Table 1. Causes of Vaginitis.

 
Candida Vulvovaginitis

The epidemiologic data on candida vulvovaginitis, a nonreportable disease, are incomplete. Prevalence estimates rely mainly on self-reported histories of diagnosis by a physician. Vulvovaginal candidiasis is routinely diagnosed without the benefit of microscopy or culture, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Pathogenesis

Diagnosis

Therapy

Recurrent Vulvovaginal Candidiasis

Trichomoniasis

Diagnosis

Therapy

Bacterial Vaginosis

Diagnosis

Therapy

Atrophic Vaginitis

Desquamative Inflammatory Vaginitis

Noninfectious Vaginitis and Vulvitis

Vaginitis in HIV-Seropositive Women

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From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine and Detroit Medical Center, Detroit.

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