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2204265

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-10-5
pubmed:abstractText
Two hundred two slide latex agglutination (SLA) tests were performed on 137 women attending a vaginitis clinic to evaluate the efficacy of this new test in diagnosing acute symptomatic Candida vaginitis. In 77 patients with acute Candida vaginitis, the SLA test revealed a positive reaction in 56 patients, reflecting a sensitivity of 72.7%, lower than that observed with the 10% potassium hydroxide microscopic examination (sensitivity 90%). False negative SLA reactions could not be accounted for by lower numbers of yeast cultured from the vagina or by the presence of nonalbicans strains of Candida. Following successful antimycotic therapy, the SLA test promptly became negative in all mycologically negative patients. Application of the SLA test in asymptomatic healthy control women revealed extremely few false positive reactions for Candida (5.6%). This easily performed and rapid slide latex agglutination test should provide a useful adjunct to the diagnosis of Candida vaginitis, but only for physicians who do not routinely perform microscopy on vaginal secretions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0002-9173
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
94
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
323-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
A new slide latex agglutination test for the diagnosis of acute Candida vaginitis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit Medical Center, Michigan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't