Gynaecological and microbiological findings in women attending for a general health check-up.

Two hundred apparently healthy sexually active women, 17-34 years of age, who had presented for a general health check-up at the Clinic of Dermatology and Venereology, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, were asked about genital symptoms, sexual behaviour, contraceptive use and smoking habits, and examined for signs of genital infections. They were searched for genital chlamydial infection, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis (BV) and vulvovaginal candidosis, syphilis and HIV. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in urine samples and the results were compared with direct immunofluorescence (DFA) and enzyme immunoassays (EIA) for C.

Vaginal microbiological flora, and behavioural and clinical findings in women with vulvar pain.

Objective: To study genital symptoms and signs in women with vulvar pain, and the association with potential risk factors such as microbiological agents, sexual behaviour and genital hygiene.

Design: Prospective cohort study of apparently healthy women attending for contraceptive advice.

Setting: Two family planning clinics and one youth clinic in Sweden.

Prevalence, epidemiological and clinical correlates of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection.

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of genital infection with Chlamydia trachomatis in different groups of patients in the region of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, over a period of four years (1992-1995) and to establish epidemiological and clinical correlates of infection.

Material And Methods: Five groups were enrolled in the study: group A-990 symptomatic male sexually transmitted disease (STD) patients, group B-1023 symptomatic female STD patients, group C-253 gynaecological patients, and asymptomatic groups D-276 men and group E-231 women. Urethral samples from men and cervical and urethral samples from women were examined for C.

Symptoms and signs in single and mixed genital infections.

Objective: To compare symptoms and signs in women with single and mixed genital infections.

Methods: The study population comprised 996 apparently healthy women. Gynecological symptoms and signs were looked for and diagnostics for the most prevalent gynecological infections were made.