Microbiological Profile of Vaginosis among Women of the Reproductive Age Group,
Who Attended a Tertiary Care Hospital
1548-1551
Correspondence
Renu Mathew, Professor of Microbiology,
Saveetha Medical College & Hospital,
Saveetha University, Saveetha Nagar,
Thandalam, Chennai – 602 105
Tamilnadu, India.
Phone: 9841101062/Land line: 044-49522213
Fax: 044-26811999
Email: renumathews@yahoo.com
Background: An abnormal vaginal discharge is a common complaint in women and it can be due to vaginal infections like bacterial vaginosis, candidiasis and trichomoniasis .
Aim: A descriptive cross sectional study was done to find out the common pathogens which caused vaginosis in patients of the reproductive age group, who attended the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at the Saveetha Medical College Hospital, Thandalam, Kanchipuram District, from 1st April to 30th September, 2010.
Materials and Methods: All the 140 vaginal discharge samples were subjected to gram staining to view the morphological nature of the bacteria which caused bacterial vaginosis and gram positive, budding yeast cells, wet film for the motility of Trichomonas and Chlamydial antigen detection by ELISA.
Results: The overall positivity was 44%, which included bacterial vaginosis (36.4%). The positivity of candidiasis was 4.2%, that of trichomoniasis was 2.1% and that of chlamydiasis was 1.4%.
Conclusion: Bacterial vaginosis was found to be the commonest cause of the abnormal vaginal discharge in women of the reproductive age group.