ZARAKOLU P, HODOGLUGIL NS, AYDIN F, TOSUN I, BEVERLY A, SCHWEBKE J, UNAL S; Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Abstr Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2000 Sep 17-20; 40: 144.
Hacettepe Univ., Ankara, Turkey
BACKGROUND: This study was designed to assess the international reproducibility of interpretation of Gram-stained vaginal smears by Nugents scoring system for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis (BV) at three different centers, two in different provinces of Turkey and one in the United States.METHODS: The vaginal smears were collected from clients attending a family planning clinic in Turkey during October- December 1997. One vaginal slide was taken from each client and prepared according to the standard methods and numerated. One evaluator from each center examined the slides independently and none of them had access to the evaluation of the others. Among 372 slides, 259 were found to be satisfactory for scoring by all three evaluators and included in the analysis. Nugents scores from 1-10 was compared by Spearman correlation coefficients and Kappa statistics. The difference in the proportions of BV diagnosis in three centers was evaluated by Chi-square test.RESULTS: Results are shown in the table [table: see text]. Conclusion: There is good to excellent agreement for the interpretation of Gram-stained vaginal smears by Nugents scoring system for the diagnosis of BV across international centers.KEYWORDS: Bacterial vaginosis
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Keywords:
- Evaluation Studies
- Female
- Gentian Violet
- Gram's stain
- Humans
- Phenazines
- Staining and Labeling
- Turkey
- United States
- Vagina
- Vaginal Smears
- Vaginosis, Bacterial
- diagnosis
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UI: 102248962
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