Screening for bacterial vaginosis: a novel application of artificial nose technology.

S Chandiok; B A Crawley; B A Oppenheim; P R Chadwick; S Higgins; K C Persaud

Screening for bacterial vaginosis: a novel application of artificial nose technology.

S Chandiok, B A Crawley, B A Oppenheim, P R Chadwick, S Higgins, K C Persaud

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Abstract

The AromaScan system was used to analyse vaginal swabs from 68 women attending a genitourinary clinic. Using clinical criteria, subjects were assessed for bacterial vaginosis. After training the AromaScan system to recognise patterns generated from four patients with and four patients without bacterial vaginosis, 16 of the 17 (94%) remaining subjects were correctly identified as having the condition. The positive predictive value of the test was 61.5%. These results indicate that the AromaScan technology may be of value as a screening test for bacterial vaginosis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	790-791
Number of pages	1
Journal	Journal Of Clinical Pathology
Volume	50
Issue number	9
Publication status	Published - Sept 1997

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