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Vaginal specimens were collected and prepared for smears in microscope slides for the evaluation of yeast, <jats:italic>Trichomonas vaginalis<\/jats:italic> and bacteria. Samples were cultured in specific culture medium. Cervical specimens were used to investigate the presence of <jats:italic>Neisseria gonorrhoeae<\/jats:italic>,<jats:italic> Chlamydia trachomatis<\/jats:italic>,<jats:italic> Ureaplasma<\/jats:italic> spp. and <jats:italic>Mycoplasma hominis<\/jats:italic>. We enrolled 210 pregnant women, aged 10\u201342\u00a0years old. Of them, 38.1% were symptomatic. Symptoms were most prevalent in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy coincident with a major prevalence of microorganisms. In this study, 39.5% of pregnant women had normal microbial biota and symptoms of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">VV<\/jats:styled-content> due to non\u2010infectious causes were observed (6.2%). The occurrence of vulvovaginal candidiasis was 25% and <jats:italic>Candida albicans<\/jats:italic> with a prevalence of 80.7% was the dominant species (<jats:italic>P\u00a0<\/jats:italic>=<jats:italic>\u00a0<\/jats:italic>0.005) while non<jats:italic>\u2010albicans Candida<\/jats:italic> species and other yeast were more common in asymptomatic ones (<jats:italic>P\u00a0<\/jats:italic>=<jats:italic>\u00a0<\/jats:italic>0.0038). 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