Treatment of Acute Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Table 1

Recovery of microorganisms from the upper genital tract of women with acute PID.

Study	Number of patients	Chlamydia trachomatis	Neisseria gonorrhoeae	Anaerobic and aerobic bacteria
Sweet [26–29]	380	68 (18%)	172 (45%)	267 (70%)
Wasserheit [30]	23	11 (44%)	8 (35%)	11 (45%)
Heinonen [31]	25	10 (40%)	4 (16%)	17 (68%)
Paavonen [32]	35	12 (34%)	4 (11%)	24 (69%)
Brunham [33]	50	21 (42%)	8 (16%)	10 (20%)
Soper [34]	84^a	1 (1.2%)	32 (38%)	12 (13%)
	51^b	6 (7.4%)	49 (98%)	16 (32%)
Hillier [35]	85^a	3 (4%)	16 (19%)	43 (50%)
	178^b	23 (13%)	44 (25%)	168 (94%)
	278^c	27 (9.9%)	37 (13.4%)	170 (61%)
Haggerty [36]	45^c,d	12 (26.5%)	15 (33.3%)	^e
Total	1234	194 (15.7%)	389 (31.5%)	770 (62%)

^aFallopian tube, cul-de-sac.
^bEndometrial cavity.
^cClinically diagnosed acute PID.
^dHistologic endometritis.
^eNot available as total: anaerobic Gram-negative rods 31.7%; anaerobic Gram-positive cocci 22%; Gardnerella vaginalis 30.5%.
Reprinted with permission. Sweet [3].