Anaerobic microflora of the vagina in children

Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1978 Aug 15;131(8):853-6. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9378(16)33130-1.

Abstract

Vaginal cultures from 25 healthy girls from two months to 15 years of age were examined for aerobic, facultatively anaerobic, and obligately anaerobic bacteria. An average of 8.7 species (3.7 aerobic and facultatively anaerobic species; 5.3 obligately anaerobic species) were isolated from these cultures. Staphylococcus epidermidis (21), diphtheroids (20), bacteroides (19), peptococci (19), peptostreptococci (14), and Bacteroides melaninogenicus (14) were most prevalent organisms.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Anaerobiosis
  • Bacteria / isolation & purification*
  • Bacteroides / isolation & purification
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Corynebacterium / isolation & purification
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Peptococcus / isolation & purification
  • Peptostreptococcus / isolation & purification
  • Staphylococcus / isolation & purification
  • Streptococcus / isolation & purification
  • Vagina / microbiology*