Imaging characteristics and comparative evaluation of dual-fluorescence assay in various types of vaginitis: a cross-sectional study
WenHui Qi, Liyao Wang, Junyi Bai, Jinfang Chen, Huanrong Li, Mengting Dong, Chen Wang, Fengxia Xue · 2026
Read Imaging characteristics and comparative evaluation of dual-fluorescence assay in various types of vaginitis: a cross-sectional study by WenHui Qi, Liyao Wang, Junyi Bai, Jinfang Chen, Huanrong Li, Mengting Dong, Chen Wang, Fengxia Xue (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13563858.txt.
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WenHui Qi and seven colleagues test a two-colour fluorescence stain that promises faster, clearer diagnosis of the four kinds of vaginitis. Routine microscopy is slow and skill-hungry. Under blue light, the 2026 assay paints microbes red and the patient's own cells green, so shape and colour together name the culprit. The team mapped how cultured cells and reference strains look under the stain, then judged it on vaginal samples from 758 women against the microscope workup.
Agreement ran strong. For bacterial vaginosis the test caught 88.6 percent with 95.8 percent specificity. For yeast infection it caught 95.3 percent with 97.8 percent specificity, the best pairing of the four. Aerobic vaginitis and trichomoniasis scored well, though case counts for the last were small. Mixed infections could be read in the same view. The authors position the stain as a test that merges the strengths of wet-mount and Gram methods for clinics.
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| CREATOR | WenHui Qi, Liyao Wang, Junyi Bai, Jinfang Chen, Huanrong Li, Mengting Dong, Chen Wang, Fengxia Xue |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40612 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |