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Eleven hundred eighty-one patients have been screened clinically for infections of the vagina and 370 were subjected to 1,033 detailed clinical observations and bacteriological studies. One hundred thirty-eight cases with primary diagnoses of bacterial vaginitis were detected, of which 127 (92.0 per cent) were attributed to a single etiological agent. This bacterium, heretofore unclassified, has been described and assigned the name Haemophilus vaginalis. Proof of pathogenicity of the organism has been presented.