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Résumé:
Female genital tract infections are among the most confronted public health problems
worldwide, the causal factors of these infections are uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, neoplasms,
use of systemic antibiotics, corticosteroid therapy, pregnancy, wearing tight or synthetic fiber
clothing, tampons, inadequate hygiene habits, genetic predispositions, and contraceptive use.
In order to prevent this situation, cytological examination has been used; however,
vulvovaginitis are among the public health problems that most affect women due to their ease
of transmission. Therefore, the present study aims to identify the prevalence of female genital
tract infections due to microbiological agents in Brazil. For the development of the research
was carried out a search in the databases: Portal of Journals of the Coordination and
Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and Google Scholar where 12 articles
were selected for the elaboration of the work. The present agents that caused alterations in the
cytological reports analyzed by the authors were Gardnerella vaginalis / mobiluncus, Candida
sp., Trichomonas vaginalis, Chlamydia tracomatis and the HPV virus, in which the first two
presented a higher incidence even for composing the normal microbiota of women. manifest on
occasions that imbalance occurs in the vulvovaginal environment.