STUDYING THE PREVALENCE OF VAGINAL AND CERVICAL INFECTIONS IN MARRIED WOMEN AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ANAEMIA

Abstract

The current study aimed to identify and diagnose bacterial infection that cause vaginal and cervical infection in married women and correlating this to anaemia. Therefore, 186 vaginal swap were collected from them for the period from first of March 2022 to the third of August 2022 and their age was between 20-60 years, in the meantime blood test was done simultaneously. Results show that about 165( 89%) samples were positive for microbial. From those about 65 (39.3%) samples were single bacteria, 47 (28.4%) mixed bacterial species, 20 (12.1%) samples were candida and 33 (20.0%) samples were mixed between bacteria and candida. Results also showed that 100 (53.7%) from the total number of patients suffered from anaemia while 86(46.2%) had normal haemoglobin levels. Highest anemic group aged 20-30 years whilest lowest lrvel recorded in elder people 50-60 ages.