CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- SECTION I: INTRODUCTION -- CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND USE OF THE MICROBIOLOGY LAB IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT -- SECTION II: SPECIAL ORGANISMS -- GROUP B STREPTOCOCCI -- GENITAL MYCOPLASMAS -- CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONS -- HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS INFECTION -- SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES -- MIXED ANAEROBIC-AEROBIC PELVIC INFECTION AND PELVIC ABSCESS -- HEPATITIS INFECTION -- SECTION III: GYNECOLOGIC AND OBSTETRICINFECTIONS -- TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME -- INFECTIOUS VULVOVAGINITIS -- POSTABORTION INFECTION, BACTEREMIA, AND SEPTIC SHOCK -- PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE -- URINARY TRACT INFECTION -- PERINATAL INFECTIONS -- PREMATURE RUPTURE OF THE MEMBRANES -- INTRAAMNIOTIC INFECTION -- SUBCLINICAL INFECTION AS A CAUSE OF PREMATURE LABOR -- POSTPARTUM INFECTION -- WOUND AND EPISIOTOMY INFECTIONS -- PARASITIC DISEASE IN PREGNANCY -- SECTION IV: ANTIBIOTICS/ANTIVIRALS -- ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS -- SECTION V: IMMUNIZATION -- IMMUNIZATION -- INDEX.