[Bacterial flora in the reproductive system in the intra-amniotic infection syndrome]

By the bacteriological aerobic analysis of the cervical swabs of 64 pregnant women with a subacute syndrome of intraamniotic infection in the 16th and 28th gestation weeks, pathogenic bacteria were isolated in 59 women (92.2%) and out of the swabs of 30 young girls with less sexual experience, 8 (26.7%) showed the presence of pathogenic bacteria, the difference being statistically highly significant (X2 V 56.9, p less than 0.001). From the ejaculates of the husbands of the same pregnant women, pathogenic bacterial were isolated in 57 of them (89.1%) and from the ejaculates of the controlled groups of young adolescents, pathogenic bacteria were isolated in 5 of them (16.7%), the difference being again statistically highly significant (X2 = 62.2, p less than 0.001). Comparing bacteria from the swabs of pregnant women with the syndrome of intraamniotic infection with those from the semen of their husbands, it has been found that the bacteria were identical in 40.6% if only one kind of bacteria was isolated and in 68.7% if several kinds of bacteria were isolated from the swab or ejaculates. In the group of 30 young girls a statistically significant dependence of pathogenic bacteria on the number of partners in their sexual life was observed (X2 = 4.54, p less than 0.05); pathogenic bacteria were isolated only once from the swabs of girls with only one partner and 6 times from the swabs of girls with two or more sexual partners.