[Results from an epidemiologic study program of meningitis/encephalitis in Berlin, I: 1 January 1992-31 March 1994]. / Ergebnis eines epidemiologischen Untersuchungsprogramms bei Meningitis/Enzephalitis in Berlin, Teil I: 1.1.1992-31.3. 1994.

Although four types of meningitis/encephalitis must be reported by the Federal Communicable Disease Act since 1980, the incidence of etiologically not identified cases is constant over the years. We report on the first results in 1097 patients with meningitis who were examined by microbiological methods. These examinations were free of charge for the clinics in Berlin.

[Changes in the vaginal flora caused by supporting pessary treatment in pregnancy]. / Untersuchungen über Veränderungen der Vaginalflora bei Stützpessarbehandlung in der Schwangerschaft.

200 pregnant women with supporting pessary treatment because of cervical insufficiency were compared with one of normal pregnancies concerning microbiological findings and puerperal morbidity. -- 5,5% of the women in the supporting pessary group had pathogenic organisms in their cervix before first amnioscopy, compared to 2% in the control group. The different results of cultural microbiologic examinations in both groups depend on type and duration of birth as well as time of amnion rupture. Women with premature rupture of the membranes (31,0%) had more pathogenic organisms than women with rupture (2,5%) in time. There was no higher infection morbidity compared to the control group.