[Douglas' pouch swab for detection of anaerobic asporous micro-organisms (author's transl)]

Bacteriological diagnosis was applied to Douglas' pouch swabs taken off 119 patients, most of them with non-inflammatory genital diseases. Purely anaerobic cultures were recorded from 11.8 per cent, mixed anaerobic-aerobic cultures from 8.4 per cent, and purely aerobic cultures from 56.3 per cent. Cultures remained sterile in 23.5 per cent of all cases. Forty-six of those patients were afflicted with uterine myomatosis, a group from which the following results were obtained: purely anaerobic cultures in 21.7 per cent of all cases, mixed anaerobic-aerobic cultures in 6,5 per cent, purely aerobic cultures in 54.4 per cent, and sterile cultures in 17.4 per cent. The importance of such sited flora to both genesis and kinetics of pelvic inflammations is discussed.