Fig 1.
PRISMA flow diagram.
Table 1.
Characteristics of studies in the scoping review (n = 64 studies).
Table 2.
Summary of descriptive statistics (n = 64 studies).
Fig 2.
Median prevalence by subgroup.
1.The cut-off of the first group is based on the year of Cibley e’ al.’s study [7] on CV, and the cut-off for the subsequent groups was chosen to divide the remaining years equally between groups.
Table 3.
Summary of diagnosis variables (n = 22 studies).
Table 4.
Diagnosis studies (n = 12 studies).
Table 5.
Summary of treatment recommendations (n = 35 studies).
Table 6.
Association between CV and other conditions (n = 8 studies).
Fig 3.
A & B, Normal wet mount and gram stain (pleomorphic lactobacilli and superficial cells). C & D, Bacterial vaginosis wet mount and gram stain (lack of lactobacilli, clue cells, and granular flora). E & F, CV wet mount and gram stain (abundant lactobacilli, fragmented epithelial cells: Bare nuclei and cytoplasmic debris). Wet mount magnification: 400x and gram stain magnification 1000x.