A vaginal wet mount, also called a wet prep or vaginal smear, is a test done to find the cause of vaginitis, ... Bacterial vaginosis. This is the most common type of vaginitis.

Using Gram stain diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis as the standard, Pap smear and vaginal culture test results had sensitivity of 43.1 and 77.8%, specificity of 93.6 and 97.7%, positive predictive ...

Danielle Vukadinovich is sitting up in a hospital bed at the Inova Women's Hospital in Falls Church, Va., waiting to give birth. "I feel good, I'm excited!" says Vukadinovich, 35, of Annandale, Va ...

Smear test samples from women with ovarian cancer, as well as women with a genetic risk of the disease, had significantly lower levels of lactobacilli bacteria than healthy women of the same age ...

Doctors Test Bacterial Smear After Cesarean Sections To Bolster Babies' Microbiomes By Rob Stein Published October 30, 2018 at 4:03 AM CDT ...

Change in bacterial load was measured by molecular bacterial load assay, smear microscopy, culture positivity, and clinical sign resolution. The mean bacterial load was 5.48±1.30 at baseline, ...

A sputum smear after dye has been added and it has been washed. Shutterstock. Another limitation with smear methods are that they can’t distinguish between living and dead bacteria – making it ...

Doctors Test Bacterial Smear After Cesarean Sections To Bolster Babies' Microbiomes By Rob Stein Published October 30, 2018 at 5:03 AM EDT ...

Danielle Vukadinovich is sitting up in a hospital bed at the Inova Women's Hospital in Falls Church, Va., waiting to give birth. "I feel good, I'm excited!" says Vukadinovich, 35, of Annandale, Va ...