Bacterial Colony Counts During Vaginal Surgery

Bacterial Colony Counts During Vaginal Surgery

OBJECTIVE To describe the bacterial types and colony counts present before and during vaginal surgery. METHODS A descriptive study was undertaken of patients undergoing vaginal hysterectomy with or without reconstructive pelvic surgery. Aerobic and anaerobic bacterial cultures were obtained immediately before and throughout the surgical cases at preselected time intervals. Standard antimicrob...

Some factors affecting bacterial colony counts in urinary infection.

Vaginal leucocyte counts in women with bacterial vaginosis: relation to vaginal and cervical infections.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether an elevated vaginal leucocyte count in women with bacterial vaginosis (BV) predicts the presence of vaginal or cervical infections, and to assess the relation of vaginal WBC counts to clinical manifestations. METHODS We retrospectively analysed the relation of vaginal leucocyte counts to vaginal and cervical infections and to clinical manifestations in non-pregn...

Vaginal bacterial phaginosis?

Anaerobic (bacterial) vaginosis is a vaginal syndrome of unknown aetiology in which women complain of a fishy smelling vaginal discharge and the normal lactobacillus dominated vaginal flora is replaced by a profound overgrowth of Gardnerella vaginalis, Mycoplasma hominis, and mixed anaerobes, particularly Prevotella, Porphyromonas, and Mobiluncus species. The vaginal pH is elevated (usually pH ...

High-Throughput Quantification of Bacterial-Cell Interactions Using Virtual Colony Counts

The quantification of bacteria in cell culture infection models is of paramount importance for the characterization of host-pathogen interactions and pathogenicity factors involved. The standard to enumerate bacteria in these assays is plating of a dilution series on solid agar and counting of the resulting colony forming units (CFU). In contrast, the virtual colony count (VCC) method is a high...