Examples of common findings on wet mount microscopy of vaginal discharge

(A) Normal (presence of pleomorphic lactobacilli and superficial cells).

(B) Bacterial vaginosis (clue cells, absent lactobacilli, presence of granular flora).

(C) Candida (mycelium and blastospores, moderate inflammation, lactobacilli grade IIa; the dimorphism is suggestive of C. albicans).

(D) Candida and bacterial vaginosis (lactobacilli absent, granular flora, severe inflammation, blastospores).

(E) Cytolytic vaginosis (abundant lactobacilli, bare nuclei, and cytoplasmatic debris).

(F) Desquamative inflammatory vaginitis (also referred to as aerobic vaginitis).

(G) Desquamative inflammatory vaginitis (severe AV; lactobacilli grade III, cocci, atrophy, and moderate inflammation).

(H) Trichominiasis and bacterial vaginosis (clue cells, granular flora, lactobacilli absent, inflammation, T. vaginilis).

(I) Vaginal atrophy (lactobacilli absent, cellular scarcity, parabasal cells).

(J) Leptothrix.

(K) Cervical mucus.