VAGINITIS: Diagnosis and Treatment

The organisms causing the three major types of vaginitis produce fairly distinctive symptoms, are quite easy to isolate in the laboratory, and account for more than 95 percent of vaginitides. This leaves little or no room for “nonspecific vaginitis.” Now that effective treatment for trichomonal vaginitis is available, candidal vaginitis has become the most important type, and the most obstinate.