[Microbiologic characteristics of postpartum lactation mastitis].

In the bacteriological survey of 410 patients with purulent mastitis Staphylococcus aureus was found to be the main etiological factor of the disease. In most cases the strains of phage group I, phage type 80 were isolated. In unilateral mastitis during the acute period staphylococci were isolated from the the milk samples taken from the affected mammary gland in 77.