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MICROBIOLOGY: STD Results - What do they mean?

I recently did a vaginal swab test at a very very bad clinic (I know this now) and the results aren’t clear to me whatsoever.

It says at the top

Gram stained slide:
WBC - not seen
RBC - not seen
epithelial cells - (++)
Trichomonas vaginalis - not seen
Yeast cells - not seen
Lactobacillus spp - (++)
Microorganisms - not seen

Microscopy (wet preparation):
Teichomonas vaginalis - not seen

Culture:
(+) mixed flora

And then at the bottom of the page it says

No streptococcus agalactiae isolated
No Candida spp. Isolated
No staphylococcus aureus isolates
No neisseria gonorrheae isolates
No gardenerella vaginalis isolates

MY QUESTION BEING
Do I have herpes or gonorrhoea?
I was told by the doctor that I may have genital herpes but since I have the result of ‘not seen’ in microorganism and microorganisms are bacteria and viruses then is it possible for me to have genital herpes?
AND I googled what apithelial cells are and it basically said gonorrhoea and since I got a (++) for that then I assume I must have gonorrhoea right? But at the bottom it says NO NEISSERIA GONORRHEA ISOLATED
Somebody please tell me what these results mean because it makes no sense to me whatsoever
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It appears that you have a clean bill of health. No gonorrhea isolated means negative. There doesn’t appear to be anything in this report that mentions hsv (herpes). Looks like you weren’t swabbed for it, which is ridiculous if that is what the clinician suspected. Maybe they swabbed to rule out other things first but they should have swabbed for hsv to have an answer. You may want to try to get swabbed again, somewhere else, but if any sores or irritation have healed, it may not be reliable. Ugh...I swear these doctors are a joke sometimes!
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