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To the Editor: Sobel states that simple diagnostic criteria are sufficient for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis but that few clinicians are trained to use microscopy (Dec. 25 issue).¹ We believe that clinicians can use wet mounts to demonstrate the abnormal flora of bacterial vaginosis, as they should to diagnose trichomoniasis. We have used gas–liquid chromatography as a measure of lactobacillus-related lactate concentrations in vaginal rinsings with 2 ml of saline in 612 Belgian women seen consecutively in a gynecologic practice (Table 1).

View this table: [in this window] [in a new window]   Table 1. Numbers of Women with Normal and with Abnormal Vaginal Bacterial Flora in Fresh Wet-Mount and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 
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