Bacillus Coli Infections of the Female Urinary Tract *A Paper read at a Meeting of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, held in the University of Bristol on 8th March, 1933.
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Primary infection of the vulva, vagina and urethra with B. Coli is not common, but cases do occur which give rise to a suspicion of gonococcal infection. The commonest type is the vulvo-vaginitis of young girls; this is limited to the external genitals, and does not involve the vagina above the hymen and rarely the urethra. The initial lesion is usually caused by trauma, either by the rubbing of tight-fitting under-clothes or by scratching from irritation, usually due to thread-worms, and infection by the B. Coli follows. On the other hand, excoriation of the parts may be caused by a highly acid urine, with subsequent Coli infection. The labia are swollen and red, and there is thick tenacious pus between the labia majora, which may be glued together. The pus is limited to the external genitals, and none can be expressed from the vagina by pressure made by a finger in the rectum, whereas in gonorrhoeal cases pus can usually be expressed in this manner. The urethra is rarely
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