RESUMEN
A total of 56 adult female attending the outpatient Gynaecology Clinic of Medical City Teaching Hospital of Baghdad were selected for the purpose of this study. Forty of these patients had variable degress of vaginal discharge, while the rest were asymptomatic with normal speculum examination. Pathogenic and normal flora in both groups of patients were indentified employing culture, wet-preparation and gram stained films of the high vaginal swabs taken from all patients under study. The pathogenic organisms isolated from vaginal discharge patients included Candida albicans [15%], Trichomonas vaginals [10%], Gardenerella vaginals10%],Beta hemolytic stepococci group B [10%], and Gram-negative coliforms 35% [including E. coli [25%], Klebsiella species [17.5%] and proteus [2.5%]; while in 27% of cases no pathogenic agent could be isolated in spite of evidence of infection, such cases were considered to be chlamydial, mycoplasmal or viral in nature. Other microorganisms isolated and considered as normal flora included staphylococcus albus, lactobacilli, beta hemolytic streptococci group D, non- hemolytic streptococci, yeasts other than candida albicans, staphylococcus aureus and bacillus species