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. 1978 Aug 15;131(8):853-6.
doi: 10.1016/s0002-9378(16)33130-1.

Anaerobic microflora of the vagina in children

M R Hammerschlag, S Alpert, A B Onderdonk, P Thurston, E Drude, W M McCormack, J G Bartlett

Anaerobic microflora of the vagina in children

M R Hammerschlag et al. Am J Obstet Gynecol. .

Abstract

Vaginal cultures from 25 healthy girls from two months to 15 years of age were examined for aerobic, facultatively anaerobic, and obligately anaerobic bacteria. An average of 8.7 species (3.7 aerobic and facultatively anaerobic species; 5.3 obligately anaerobic species) were isolated from these cultures. Staphylococcus epidermidis (21), diphtheroids (20), bacteroides (19), peptococci (19), peptostreptococci (14), and Bacteroides melaninogenicus (14) were most prevalent organisms.

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