Preoperative Cervical Microbial Flora and Post-Abortion Infection

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Abstract
With the aim to find criteria for the prediction of the patients who are at risk of developing a post-abortion infection the pretreatment cervical microbial flora was compared between one series of patients who developed and another series of patients who did not develop such an infection. Aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, and mycoplasma and fungi, were studied in 104 patients. The distribution of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria was similar in the 14 patients who later developed post-abortal infection and in uncomplicated cases. Cultivation of the cervical microbial flora apparently cannot serve as a basis for the prediction of which patients will develop subsequent genital infections.

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