Table 5. Association between discharge and organism isolated on culture (N=200).
YOCA: yeast other than C. albicans.
Organism isolated on culture | Discharge | Chi-square test | ||||||
Thick curdy discharge | Thin excessive discharge | Purulent discharge | Foul+frothy discharge | Grayish-white+fishy discharge | Total | χ2 | P-value | |
Negative | 0 (0.0%) | 52 (100.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 26 (100.0%) | 17 (100.0%) | 95 (47.5%) | 400.000 | <0.001 |
C. albicans | 42 (56.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 42 (21.0%) | ||
YOCA | 33 (44.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 33 (16.5%) | ||
E. coli | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 15 (50.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 15 (7.5%) | ||
S. aureus | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 9 (30.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 9 (4.5%) | ||
K. pneumoniae | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (2.0%) | ||
Enterococcus species | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (6.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (1.0%) | ||
Total | 75 (100.0%) | 52 (100.0%) | 30 (100.0%) | 26 (100.0%) | 17 (100.0%) | 200 (100.0%) |