Seventy-eight patients with vulvovaginal pyogenic lesions and 104 with pelvic infection have
been presented. Nonsporulating, obligate anaerobic bacteria were the organisms most …

Thirty-three women with severe infections of the genital tract were studied with the use of
fastidious anaerobic techniques. The cases consisted of pelvic abscesses (13), septic …

POST-ABORTAL and puerperal infection due to Clostridial organisms have been reported
periodically ever since HM Little's paper appeared in 1905. Hyperbaric oxygen has been …

Keprint requests: Dr. William J. Ledger, Women's Hospital, L-1013, 1240 N. Mission Rd., Los
Angeles, California 90033. discovery thatBacteroidesfrag&, a commonly recovered …

Anaerobic bacteria have been recognized as pathogens in female genital tract infections
since the turn of the century. Schottmueller in 1910 was one of the first to recognize the …

Anaerobic bacterial organisms are a frequent cause of female genital tract infections. There
has been a lack of appreciation of the significant role anaerobes play in obstetric and …

The treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease depends upon the etiology of the condition.
Pelvic infection (PI) after parturition and abortion, gynecologic surgery, and a variety of …

The bacteriology of acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) was studied in 20 patients by
simultaneous cul-de-sac, cervical, and blood cultures with aerobic and fastidious anaerobic …

Samples from the posterior vaginal fornix of 102 women with various clinical conditions were
analysed by a quantitative method. Aerobes were isolated from all but one of the specimens …

Many different species of bacteria are responsible for individual pelvic infections. The
complexity of this microbiologic picture should be uppermost in the mind of the physician …