The microbiological investigations in the diagnostics of infections affecting human reproduction

In the article there are data concerning the development of research activity in the field of reproductive tract infections fulfilled at the laboratory of microbiology, the D.O.Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, for last one hundred years. The importance of microbiological investigations in diagnosing genital, perinatal and neonatal infections is underlined. Own data on diagnostics, epidemiology, clinical manifestations of listeriosis, toxoplasmosis, viral and bacterial infections are present in the article.