title: [Corynebacteria isolated in colpitis and puerperal complications].
abstract: The role of microorganisms belonging to the genus Corynebacterium in normalization of vaginal biocenosis by creating acid medium is discussed. A total of 300 samples of lochia and vaginal and cervical secretion were examined, 140 of these taken from women without gynecological diseases and women with a normal course of the postpartum period (controls) and 160 from patients with colpitis of various origins and a complicated course of the puerperium. An appreciable increase of the level of diphtheroids was observed in the lochia of control subjects and in all samples of patients (p < 0.01). Eight species of Corynebacterium were isolated. Urease-negative C. minutissimum, C. equi, C. aquaticum, and C. xerosis predominated in both controls and patients (p < 0.01). Opportunistic C. bovis, C. enzymicum, C. kutshevi, and C. sp. possessing urease activity were seldom isolated. No differences between the 2 groups in the species composition of the isolated bacteria were detected (p > 0.05). Two species of Corynebacterium were sometimes isolated from the same sample, this being more frequently with vaginal and cervical secretion samples than with lochia both in controls and patients (p < 0.01). The most incident association was C. aquaticum and C. equi. 59.6 +/- 2.7 isolated strains proved to be sensitive to antibiotics manufactured in this country.
authors.forename: Z M
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Martikaĭnen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000382:microbiology; D003352:Corynebacterium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003354:Corynebacterium Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011645:Puerperal Infection / Q000382:microbiology*; D014621:Vagina / Q000382:microbiology; D014627:Vaginitis / Q000382:microbiology*
vernacular_title: Korinebakterii, obnarushennye pri kol'pitakh i puérperal'nykh oslozhneniiakh.