Clinical Utility of Measuring White Blood Cells on Vaginal Wet Mount and Endocervical Gram Stain for the Prediction of Chlamydial and Gonococcal Infections

Abstract

Vaginal wet mount and endocervical Gram stain white blood cells are useful for the presumptive diagnosis of chlamydial infection or gonorrhea only in settings with a relatively high prevalence of infection or when other predictors can increase the likelihood of infection.