9th July 2023

A 24-year-old female personal trainer presents to the GUM clinic with a 3-day history of creamy cottage cheese-like vaginal discharge

A 24-year-old female personal trainer presents to the GUM clinic with a 3-day history of creamy cottage cheese-like vaginal discharge, vulval erythema and pruritus. She has recently completed a course of phenoxymethylpenicillin for tonsillitis. A vaginal swab is taken and microscopy confirms vulvovaginal candidiasis. What would microscopy demonstrate in this patient?

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