Assessment of Two Alternative Sample Transport and Fixation Methods in the Microbiological Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis

Erica Eason; Baldwin Toye; George A Wells; Mary Senterman

doi:10.1155/2003/312429

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases (Jan 2003)

Assessment of Two Alternative Sample Transport and Fixation Methods in the Microbiological Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis

Erica Eason,
Baldwin Toye,
George A Wells,
Mary Senterman

Affiliations

Erica Eason: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Baldwin Toye: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
George A Wells: Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Mary Senterman: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2003/312429
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 14, no. 6
pp. 322 – 326

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: The standard method for specimen collection and transport for microbiological diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis is an air-dried smear of vaginal secretions, promptly heat- or alcohol-fixed, Gram-stained and scored by Nugent's criteria.

Published in Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases

ISSN: 1180-2332 (Print)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/9575

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