Diagnosis of cervicovaginal pathogens in symptomatic pregnant women hospitalized since the second trimester.

Introduction: infections of the female genital tract constitute an important health problem in medicine. Pregnancy is a predisposing factor for the acquisition and suffering of these infections. Objective: to characterize cervicovaginal pathogens in symptomatic pregnant women hospitalized from the second trimester onwards. Methods: a descriptive and cross-sectional research was conducted in the Microbiology Laboratory of the "Mariana Grajales" Hospital in the period from 2018 to 2019. The sample consisted of 86 symptomatic pregnant women hospitalized from the second trimester in the Perinatal Care Service. From the descriptive statistics, absolute numbers and percent and the two-stage clustering and cross-table technique were used within the subgroups obtained. Results: there was a predominance of positive results for pathogenic microorganisms in 58.13% of the samples studied, mainly Candida spp (19.76%) and Ureaplasma spp (44.19%). Their antibiotic resistance to tetracycline predominated in 26.32% of their detections, but not to erithromycin (5.26%). Of the 14 coinfections diagnosed, Ureaplasma spp. was present in 13 and of these, 6.98% were with Candida spp. Conclusions: there was a predominance of positive samples, with prevalence of Candida spp. and Ureaplasma spp, the latter resistant to tetracycline and sensitive to erythromycin and as the only integral microbiological diagnosis and in almost all positive diagnoses with coinfection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]