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Frecuencia bacteriana en secreción vaginal de trabajadoras sexuales Centro de Salud No 4 Yanuncay Cuenca - 2009

Abstract:

The objective of this research was to determine the bacterial frequency found in the vaginal discharge of sexual workers from Centro de Salud No. 4 of Yanuncay, located in the city of Cuenca in 2009, applying an appropriate working methodology that guarantees the reliability in terms of the results that were obtained and their clinical usefulness. In order to select the sexual workers, it was necessary to carry out a poll in which the following information was considered: age, length of employment, amount of sexual relations per day, and frequency of infections. The universe of this study was of 2493 of women, as well as the sample selected according to the statistics program Epi Info 6.4 which was of 275 sexual workers. The samples were taken from Outpatient services of Gynecology and its processing was carried out in the Department of Microbiology of the Faculty of Medical Science. The study was descriptive and observational. A validated poll was carried out through methods and techniques of clinical laboratory in which its participants were students from the Faculty of Medical Science from the school of Medical Technology of the University of Cuenca. The following results were obtained: 70.91% of the sexual workers present bacterial infection. The most frequent age of the sexual workers is from 15 to 24 representing 57.14%. 39.49% have worked in this field for 5 to 10 years. 77.95% have more than 11 sexual relations per day, 18.46% oscillates between 6 to 10 and 91.79% states that they use condoms in their daily relations. The predominant germ is Escherichia coli representing 57.95%, after that in terms of frequency the next one is Gardnerella vaginalis with a 19.49%, Proteus mirabilis with 3.59%. When relating the microbial frequency with age: Escherichia coli is the most frequent in ages from 15 to 24 (52.21%), Estafilococo saprophytic between 25 to 34 (56.25%), Gardinella vaginalis between 15 to 24 years of age (47.37%), Proteus mirabilis between 15 to 24 years of age (47.62%), and Proteus vulgaris between 15 to 24 years of age (57.14%). As a result from the research that was carried out, important information was obtained such as the existence of a high frequency of bacterial microorganisms in vaginal discharge within this demographical segment, this allows us to infer that there is a high degree of risk of transmission which the community may be subject to. Key words: Sexual workers, vaginal discharge, microorganisms.