Prevalencia de patógenos más frecuentes encontrados en los cultivos vaginales realizados a las pacientes con infecciones vaginales del servicio de ginecología del Hospital General IESS Ceibos de enero a diciembre 2019.

Abstract

Vaginal infections have an impact on the life of women not only physically but emotionally, being considered a public health problem, so their timely diagnosis and treatment is of vital importance. The aim of this work was to determine the most frequent pathogen in the vaginal culture performed on patients with vaginal infections of the Gynecology service at the IESS Ceibos General Hospital in the city of Guayaquil in 2019. A random sample of 130 patients was used with infections that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Leucorrhoea, pruritus, and pelvic pain were the most frequent symptoms. The predominant vaginal infections were subacute and chronic vaginitis in 58.46% of patients, vulvitis and vulvovaginitis in 28.46%, and candidiasis of the vulva and vagina in 4.62%. The most frequent pathogen found was Candida Albicans in 44%, followed by Escherichica Coli with 16.15% and Gardanerella Vaginalis with 14.62%. In addition, it was concluded that there is a statistically significant relationship between the number of deliveries of the patients and the type of pathogen developed in vaginal infection.