Microbial picture of the vagina

Vaginal microbiological examination (MPV) is one of the ways of determining a number of sexually transmitted diseases. Secretion is collected with a sterile cotton swab using speculums from the mucous membrane of vagina a from cervix. The material is transferred to two glass slides and stained according to:
 * 1) Gram – diagnostics of bacteria and yeast;
 * 2) Giemsa – diagnosis of the presence of trichomonads.

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