[Results of preventive mycological examination in pregnant women]

Zentralbl Gynakol. 1975;97(26):1626-31.
[Article in German]

Abstract

From accidential patients fifteen per cent of 2328 pregnant women showed in a cultural method (malt-extract-agar) a vaginal mycosis in the seventh month of pregnancy. In most of the cases it was Candida albicans, but there were also other cases of Candida and Toruplopsis glabrata. The therapy of vaginal mycosis during pregnancy should be done generally, to prevent infections of infants and infections is gynecological and neonatological departments.

MeSH terms

  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Candida / isolation & purification
  • Candida albicans / isolation & purification
  • Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal / diagnosis*
  • Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal / drug therapy
  • Cryptococcosis / diagnosis*
  • Cryptococcosis / drug therapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications / diagnosis*
  • Prenatal Care
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents