Tampons, sanitary napkins could diagnose yeast infections with color-changing threads (IMAGE)

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Tampons, sanitary napkins could diagnose yeast infections with color-changing threads

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Pink areas on a sanitary napkin indicate the presence of <i>C. albicans</i>, which could help women in low-resource settings affordably and discreetly self-diagnose yeast infections.

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Adapted from <i>ACS Omega</i> <b>2021</b>, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00806

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