title: [Species and quantitative characteristics of pharyngeal mucosa microflora in pregnant women].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Species and quantitative characteristics of upper respiratory tract (URT) mucosa microflora in women at gestation period.
  
  
  METHODS
  The results of a bacteriological study of 68 samples of mucus from posterior pharyngeal wall in women at gestation period (from 14 weeks), 52 of those--from pregnant women with acute respiratory infection (ARI) symptoms and 16--from women without signs of disease, are presented. Qualitative and quantitative composition of microflora was studied by a generally accepted bacteriological method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During primary bacteriological study 111 microorganism cultures were isolated. 88 (79.3%) of strains belonged to Gram-positive flora, 20 (18.0%)--to Gram-negative, and Candida genus fungi constituted 3 (2.7%) isolates. Streptococcus pyogenes and Moraxella catarrhalis were isolated from pregnant women with ARI signs at 23.1% and 5.8% frequency of occurrence, respectively. A higher detectability of Staphylococcus aureus--in 31.3% and Candida spp.--in 6.3% of women who did not complain as opposed to patients with URT lesions (in 21.2 and 3.9%, respectively) was determined. In patients without ARI signs the amount of bacteria did not exceed 10(5)--10(6) CFU/ml, in pregnant women with ARI diagnosis in 8 of 52 cases semination of pharyngeal mucuswas observed--10(7)--10(8) CFU/ml.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prevalence of S. aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, S. pyogenes, Streptococcus mutans in composition of pharyngeal mucus microflora of pregnant women both with URT lesion signs and without them was shown, however the degree of semination by pathogens in the groups was different that determined the severity of disease manifestations.
authors: A K
authors: AK
authors: Meshcheriakova
authors: M P
authors: MP
authors: Kostinov
authors: O O
authors: OO
authors: Magarshak
authors: E V
authors: EV
authors: Zaĭtseva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D058070:Asymptomatic Diseases; D002175:Candida / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000382:microbiology; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001936:Moraxella catarrhalis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D045828:Moraxellaceae Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D009093:Mucus / Q000382:microbiology*; D010614:Pharynx / Q000382:microbiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D020545:Respiratory Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology*; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D013292:Streptococcus agalactiae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013297:Streptococcus pyogenes / Q000302:isolation & purification*