RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Vaginal candidosis: relation between yeast counts and symptoms and clinical signs in non-pregnant women.
JF Genitourinary Medicine
JO Genitourin Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 331
OP 334
DO 10.1136/sti.64.5.331
VO 64
IS 5
A1 V Hopwood
A1 T Crowley
A1 C T Horrocks
A1 J D Milne
A1 P K Taylor
A1 D W Warnock
YR 1988
UL http://sti.bmj.com/content/64/5/331.abstract
AB Of 277 non-pregnant women, 67 (24%) harboured Candida albicans in the genital tract. Of 56 women yielding C albicans who had no other infection diagnosed, 14 were symptomless and 10 had no clinical signs of vulval redness, vaginitis, or discharge. Symptoms and signs tended to be more severe in women with higher yeast counts. Of 22 women with moderate or severe symptoms (pruritus with or without discharge) and signs, 15 had yeast counts of more than 10(3) colony forming units (cfu)/ml, whereas six of nine women with no symptoms or signs had counts of fewer than 10(3) cfu/ml.