Table 3.

Association between spontaneous cure and baseline culture among women willing to delay antibiotic treatment

	Cure	Improvement	No change	Deterioration	Total
Baseline culture positive	4	3	2	0	9
Baseline culture negative	8	5	5	1	19
Total	12	8	7	1	28

The table shows the association between clinical cure and baseline culture in women who were willing to delay antibiotic treatment and did not use any antibiotics during the following week. The result of the baseline culture was known only after the follow-up period of one week.

In total, 28 delaying women did not use any antibiotics. Of these women, 20 (71%) reported clinical cure or improvement. Of the eight women who did not report cure or improvement, two turned out to have had a positive baseline culture.