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Evaluating vaginitis

The importance of patient factors

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala, USA

    Lisa L. Willett MD & Robert M. Centor MD

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Willett, L.L., Centor, R.M. Evaluating vaginitis. J GEN INTERN MED 20, 871 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.0186.x

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