title: [Anaerobic microflora of praepubertal children (author's transl)].
abstract: Bacteriologic cultures of the vagina and the cervix of 38 praepubertal children, aged 3 months to 16 years (average age 9 years) from the outpatient department for infants and juveniles of the 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Vienna were obtained vaginascopically using anaerobic transportmedia (Port a Cul) and were examined for aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. An average of 5.3 species was also isolated per child (2.9 aerobic and 2.5 anaerobic species). The commonest anaerobes were Peptococcus, Peptostreptococcus, Bact. melaninogenicus, Proprionibacterium and Veillonella parvula, the prevalent aerobes, were Enterococci, E coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Our results suggest that anaerobic bacteria amount a significant component of the flora of the lower genital-tract of healthy children, as well as of infants with vaginal discharge.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000382:microbiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003127:Colposcopy; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010460:Peptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010462:Peptostreptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001443:Prevotella melaninogenica / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011424:Propionibacterium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014621:Vagina / Q000382:microbiology*; D014678:Veillonella / Q000302:isolation & purification
vernacular_title: Aerobe und anaerobe Vaginalflora von Kindern--eine vaginoskopische Studie.