Society guideline links: Gynecologic infectious diseases (non-sexually transmitted)

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Bacterial vaginosis" and "Society guideline links: Sexually transmitted infections".)

International

●International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD): Vaginal wet mount microscopy guidelines – How to perform, applications, and interpretation (2021)

●ISSVD, International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH), and International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS): Descriptors of vulvodynia – A multisocietal definition consensus (2019)

•ISSVD, ISSWSH, and IPPS: Consensus terminology and classification of persistent vulvar pain and vulvodynia, 2015 (published 2016)

Canada

●Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections – Guides for health professionals (2023)

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Committee opinion on indications for pelvic examination (2019)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on vulvovaginitis − Screening for and management of trichomoniasis, vulvovaginal candidiasis, and bacterial vaginosis (2015)

United States

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines (2021)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on the utility of and indications for routine pelvic examination (2018, reaffirmed 2020)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on vaginitis in nonpregnant patients (2020)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of candidiasis, update (2016)

Europe

●International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI), European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV), European Dermatology Forum (EDF), Union of European Medical Specialists (UEMS), International Society for Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISIDOG): European guideline for the management of pelvic inflammatory disease, 2017 (published 2018)

United Kingdom

●British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH): Guidelines

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on balloon catheter insertion for Bartholin's cyst or abscess (2009)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM): Australian STI management guidelines for use in primary care

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG): Obstetrics and gynecology clinical practice guidelines – Gynecology outpatient edition (2023)

●[In English] JSOG and Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG): Guidelines for gynecological practice in Japan, 2020 edition (published 2021)