Occurrence of Bacteroidaceae in vaginal secretions of healthy pregnant women and patients with colpitis.
The frequency of gram-negative non-sporing anaerobes with possible clinical significance was studied in healthy pregnant women and in patients with non-Candida vaginitis. Only 4% of the healthy pregnant women studied yielded anaerobes of the family Bacteroidaceae. However, the incidence of Bacteroidaceae in 58 patients with colpitis was 53.5%. The predominant anaerobic species was Bacteroides oralis.
D001438:Bacteroidaceae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D014621:Vagina / Q000382:microbiology*; D014627:Vaginitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology*