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Likelihood of common vaginal infections

Infection	Sign/symptom	Likelihood ratio*
Candidiasis	Pruritus absent	0.18 to 0.79
	Pruritus as chief complaint	3.3
	Inflammatory signs present	1.4 to 8.4
	Curdlike discharge with pruritus	150
	Yeast not seen on KOH wet prep	0.51 to 0.66
Bacterial vaginosis	No complaint of odor	0.07
Bacterial vaginosis	Complaint of malodorous discharge	1.6 to 3.2
Trichomoniasis	Inflammatory signs present	6.4
	Trichomonads on saline wet mount	51 to 310
	Trichomonads absent on saline wet mount	0.34 to 0.51

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KOH: potassium hydroxide.
* Confidence intervals are wide but significant.

Adapted from Anderson MR, Klink K, Cohrssen A. JAMA 2004; 291:1368.

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