Efficacy of clindamycin vaginal cream versus oral metronidazole in the treatment of bacterial vaginosis.

Abstract

Oral metronidazole and intravaginal clindamycin cream had a similar efficacy of 78 to 83%. Both drugs were tolerated, with vaginal candidiasis developing in 8.5 and 4.7% of the patients in the clindamycin and metronidazole groups, respectively.