Use of vaginal polymorphonuclear to epithelial cell ratios for the prediction of preterm birth

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 139-144

  Ramsey, Patrick S ^a   Lyon, M Dee ^b   Goepfert, Alice R ^b   Cliver, Suzanne ^b   Schwebke, Jane ^b   Andrews, William W ^b   Goldenberg, Robert L ^b   Hauth, John C ^b  

^a Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PREDICTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUTROPHILS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; STAINING AND LABELING; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 13244250962     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000148269.36622.0a     Document Type: Article

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