The importance of vaginal infection on recurrent cystitis in women.

Forty-one women with a clinical history of recurrent urinary infection were studied. The aim of this study was to correlate the importance of vaginal infection and theincreased incidence of urinary infection. By using statistical methods, we came to the conclusion that the presence of vaginal infection is not related to the recurrence of urinary infection. Vaginal contaminations certainly permit the increase of urinary infection; there must be other host-related factors, however, that are more important for the recurrence of urinary infection.