A study of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria of in-patients with pelvic inflammatory disease, at Ramathibodi Hospital
Rimdusit, P.; Vorachit, M.; Jayanetra, P.; Sugkraroek, P.
Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand 69(9): 484-490
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0125-2208 PMID: 3794563 Document Number: 274017
The bacteriology of pelvic infections in 87 hospitalized patients (89 admissions) was investigated. Grams' stain of 50 specimens from the cervices, 22 cases (44%) showed mixed bacteria and gram-negative diplococci were found in 9 cases (18%). Aerobic bacteria was isolated from cervices of 65 (79.52%) of 83 patients, the most frequent organisms recovered were Streptococci (21%), Escherichia coli (15.7%), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (13.7%), and Staphylococci (13.1%). Only 42 (59.15%) of 71 cervical specimens were positive for anaerobes and the most common organism was Peptococcus (47.5%). Only 5 (33.3%) of 15 samples of pus from pelvic cavities from which 8 organisms were isolated, and half of these were E. coli. The anaerobic bacteria which was isolated from pus from pelvic cavities in 6 (46%) of 13 cases, were Bacteroides, Peptococcus, Peptostreptococcus and Propionibacterium(1-3). There were 3 cases in which the same aerobes were isolated from cervical and pelvic specimens, and the same anaerobes were recovered from these two sites in 2 cases.