Candida vulvovaginitis differential diagnosis

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Overview

Candidiasis must be differentiated from bacterial vaginosis.

Differential Diagnosis

Many women mistake the symptoms of the more common bacterial vaginosis for a yeast infection. In a 2002 study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, only 33 percent of women who were self treating for a yeast infection actually had a yeast infection. Instead they had either bacterial vaginosis or a mixed-type infection.