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The incidence of genital tuberculosis has increased for the last decade 2-fold reaching 11.9% of all the extrapulmonary cases. Three clinical forms of tuberculosis of the uterine appendages are distinguished: latent or minor inflammation, marked inflammation with tubuloovarian lesions, tuberculomas. The diagnosis of the disease, especially of latent forms, is not easy and requires studying the disease history, the results of subcutaneous 50 TU tuberculin test, histerosalpingography, endoscopic (surgical laparoscopy, histeroscopy, colposcopy), histological and microbiological findings.

It was revealed that there was an increase (by an average of 58%) of the RNA concentration in the blood erythrocytes of women during ovulation. Measurement of the RNA content in erythrocytes can serve as an ovulation test.

The authors presented the results of microbiological study of internal genitalia of 22 females operated on for tubal infertility caused by chronic salpingitis (all of them were subjected to laparoscopic or laparotomic intervention with subsequent salpingoovariolysis and fimbriostomatoplasty). Cervical discharge, endometrial biopsy specimens, tissue and contents of sactosalpinx as well as abdominal exudates were subjected to bacteriological study. Quantitative and qualitative assessment of aerobic and anaerobic microflora composition was made. The findings stated the variety of inflammation activity levels disregarding the degree of anatomical changes in the genitalia. However, microorganisms were detected in the focus of inflammation only in the acute stage of the inflammation in the true pelvis.