title: [Vulvovaginitis: vaginal pH changes and associated microflora].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To establish a correlation between pH vaginal and the microflora associated in carriers of vulvovaginites.
  
  
  METHODS
  In the present study, the cytopathological examination and the vaginal flow in a group of 65 sexually active women had been carried through, 20 and 72 years, taken care of in the Laboratório de Citologia Clínica do Departamento de Análises Clínicas e Toxicológicas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, for determination of microorganisms in cervicovaginal sample and of pH in the vaginal flow.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Associating pH vaginal with the presence of vulvovaginitis, it was evidenced that the Candida sp. occurred more frequently in pH 4.0, Trichomonas vaginalis in pH 6.0, Gardnerella vaginalis in pH 5.0, coconuts in pH 5.0, bacilli in pH 4.0 and cocos/bacilos in pH 6.0. It was observed that all the patients had presented at least one type of ethiological agent of vulvovaginiti and an associated microflora.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The joint accomplishment of the cytological examinations and the determination of pH revealed important for directing the microflora associated with the vulvovaginiti, suggesting, of this form, that pH vaginal plays preponderant role how much to the presence of the infectious agents in the vaginal ecosystem.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Análises Clínicas e Toxicológicas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. sassuana@ufrnet.br
authors.forename: Ana Conceiçáo Ribeiro Dantas
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Saturnino
authors.forename: Herbert Ary Arzabe Anteza Costa Nóbrega
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Sisenando
authors.forename: Alessandra Ramalho
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Ana Patrícia Medeiros
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Vale
authors.forename: Leila Monte
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Pires
authors.forename: Jarine Torres
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: de Araújo
authors.forename: Eleni Souto Nóbrega
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Ramos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D002175:Candida / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002181:Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006194:Gardnerella vaginalis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008875:Middle Aged; D014247:Trichomonas Vaginitis / Q000150:complications; D014246:Trichomonas vaginalis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014621:Vagina / Q000737:chemistry / Q000382:microbiology*; D014626:Vaginal Smears; D016585:Vaginosis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications; D014848:Vulvovaginitis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000382:microbiology