THE INCIDENCE OF SELECTED VAGINAL INFECTIONS AMONG PREGNANT URBAN BLACKS

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 59  (23) , 827-829
Abstract
A total of 232 Black antenatal patients was assessed in a cross-sectional study and a total of 80 in a longtudinal study. Trichomonas vaginalis infection occurred almost twice as frequently as Candida albicans infections. Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection was present in 10% of patients; mixed infections were present in 34% of patients.