Aislamiento de bacterias aeróbicas patógenas de secreción conjuntival de niños / Isolation of pathogen aeribic bacteria from conjuntival secretion of children / Annual Reports 1992

The presence of microbial organisms in conjunctival secretions always raises the doubt of whether they are the result of contamination or a real infection. Culture records of conjunctival secretion from children, who attended the Laboratory of Microbiology of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud and the consulting roon of the Hospital de Clinícas from January 1990 to July 1992, were analyzed to determine the most frequent infectious agenis. The most commonly microorganism foud was Staphylococcus aureus (36.4 percent of the cases), followed by Streptococcus viridans (21.2 percent), Streptococcus pneumoniae (15 percent) pseudomonas aeruginosa (9 percent) and Neisseria gonorroheae (6 peecent). Nor Haemophilus influenzae neither fungi were detected

Estudio etiológico de infección de secrecion endocervical en un grupo de alto riesgo (prostistutas) / Annual Reports 1991 / Study on the etiology of infections of endocervical secretions in a high risk group (prostitutes)

In order to determine the incidence and the etiology of the sexually trasnmitted diseaes (STD) 500 women, belonging to a high risk group (prostitutes), were studied from August, 1989 to Octuber 1990, and bacteriological and mycological studied were performed. Also, a questionnaire comprising detailed sexual behavior were rendered. High incidence of Gardnerella vaginalis (41.4 percent), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (12.2 percent), Trichomonas vaginalis (10.2 percent) and Candida albicans (10 percent) were found, in contrast with the low level found for Lactobacillus sp. The questinnaire revealed very low utilization of contraceptives as well as condom employement