Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Adriana Borges et al. Prevalência de gardnerella e mobiluncus em exames de colpocitologia em Tome-Açu, Pará: Prevalence of gardnerella and mobiluncus in vaginal cytology examinations in Tome-Açu - Pará. Rev. Para. Med. [online]. 2007, vol.21, n.4, pp.47-51. ISSN 0101-5907.

OBJECTIVE: gardnerella vaginalis, alone or associated to Mobiluncus sp., is one of the main etiological agents of infection in women of reproductive age, due to lack of appropriate hygiene habits, number of sexual partners or imbalance of the vaginal microbiota. Therefore, our objective was to assess the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis caused by G. vaginalis and/or Mobiluncus sp., and associate this to the sociocultural conditions in women attended at Hospital de Quatro Bocas in Tomé-Açu - Pará - Brazil, through gynecological cancer screening. METHODS AND RESULTS: cervico-vaginal smears and socio-cultural information of 156 women aged 17 to 73 were analyzed for diagnosis and prevention of gynecological cancer from October 2003 to July 2004. All samples were processed in the conventional way and analyzed at Universidade Federal do Pará's Laboratory of Cytopathology by three observers (a blind study). Among all 156 women, the largest prevalence was associated to G. vaginalis (48,15%) in 21 to 30- year-old women, or to the association of G. vaginalis and Mobiluncus sp (36,36%). As for the occupation and instruction degree, the infection was most prevalent in women with incomplete primary school (47,37%), housewives (21,05%) and market workers (22,81%). CONCLUSIONS: our data reaffirm previous researches that relate the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis caused by G. vaginalis and/or Mobiluncus sp. to low instruction degree in sexually active women.

Keywords : Bacterial vaginosis; Gardnerella vaginalis; Mobiluncus sp.

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