Perinatal infection and vaginal flora.
Vaginal cultures were obtained from 1, 083 mothers on admission to the labor floor. The additional bacteriologic information gained from this survey was not sufficient to warrant continued use of the admission vaginal culture as a screening procedure.
D000650:Amnion; D001424:Bacterial Infections; D004716:Endometritis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006193:Haemophilus influenzae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D007249:Inflammation; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D009344:Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011247:Pregnancy; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011645:Puerperal Infection / Q000209:etiology*; D013291:Streptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014621:Vagina / Q000382:microbiology*