Summary
In a study of pregnant patients with significant bacteriuria the colicine type of Escherichia coli recovered from two or more specimens of urine was constant for each patient. Faecal strains tested in the same way were of variable colicine type but detailed results on two patients were consistent with the existence of a constant and variable colicine type. The constant colicine type was the same as that found in the urine.
About 50 per cent of postpartum women harbour micro-organisms in their Fallopian tubes in the puerperium. In most patients the organisms are present in both tubes, but occasionally they are recoverable from one tube only. The presence of micro-organisms in the Fallopian tube in the early puerperium does not seem to be related to pregnancy disease, surgical induction of labour, operative delivery, indication for sterilization or the delivery-sterilization interval; neither does it significantly increase the incidence of post-sterilization pyrexia, nor require any treatment in itself.
About 50 per cent of postpartum women harbour micro-organisms in their Fallopian tubes in the puerperium. In most patients the organisms are present in both tubes, but occasionally they are recoverable from one tube only. The presence of micro-organisms in the Fallopian tube in the early puerperium does not seem to be related to pregnancy disease, surgical induction of labour, operative delivery, indication for sterilization or the delivery-sterilization interval; neither does it significantly increase the incidence of post-sterilization pyrexia, nor require any treatment in itself. Science, 97, 722. Prystowsky, H., and Eastman, N. J. (1955): Journal of the American Medical Association, 158, 463. logy, 97, 479.
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