BACKGROUND Vaginal infections are a risk factor for preterm delivery. In this study, we sought to evaluate the vaginal flora of pregnant women receiving opioid maintenance therapy (OMT) in comparison to non-dependent, non-maintained controls. METHODS A total of 3763 women with singleton pregnancies who underwent routine screening for asymptomatic vaginal infections between 10 + 0 and 16 + 0 g...

In Sjogren's syndrome, which is characterized by chronic inflammation of the lacrimal and salivary glands (Sjogren, 1933), there is commonly dryness of the lips and the oral mucosa with the secretion of thick, ropy saliva. The symptoms may be sufficiently severe to interfere with mastication and produce angular cheilitis and atrophy of the oral mucosa. An increase in the incidence of dental car...

The bacterial flora of the gastrointestinal tract differs qualitatively and quantitatively from one colony of mice to another. Certain components of this flora, however, are always present in large and approximately constant numbers in healthy adult mice, irrespective of the colony from which the animals are derived. Lactobacilli and anaerobic streptococci are extremely numerous in the stomach,...

Quantitative bacterial and fungal cultures carried out on 116 speciments of tissue debrided from traumatic orthopedic wounds yielded 118 bacterial and 8 fungal isolates. The organisms obtained reflected primarily the resident flora of the skin.

OBJECTIVE Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a known risk factor for postoperative infection following abdominal hysterectomy. Vaginal bacterial flora scored as intermediate has been shown to have the same risk of postoperative infection as BV. METHODS Women undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy for benign diseases were open-randomized according to Zelen to either treatment with metronidazole rect...

We compared the rectal microflora of 16 patients with surgically excluded colorectum with 16 healthy controls. The cause of diversion was inflammatory bowel disease (n = 10), colon cancer (n = 3), miscellaneous (n = 3). Six patients had a diversion colitis. In the excluded colorectum, the total bacterial count was only slightly lower than controls but the variety of the flora was significantly ...

Accepted: December 10, 2004. SUMMARY Venous leg ulcers are an important cause of morbidity in a significant percentage of the world population. The percentage of leg ulceration, either active or healed, in the European population is about 1%-2%. The aim of this study was to analyze the rate of colonization and qualitative composition of the bacterial flora isolated from leg ulcers in patients a...

A young soldier was admitted to hospital late one night with it deep wound of the dorsum of his right hand, caused, he said, by a fall. (On subsequent questioning, the patient revealed that he had been involved in a fight, during the course of which he had struck his opponent in the mouth and received a bite.) The wound appeared clean at the time and was· therefore primarily sutured. The patien...