Association between preterm birth and vaginal colonization by mycoplasmas in early pregnancy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-55

  Kataoka, Soromon ^a   Yamada, Takashi ^a,b   Chou, Kazutoshi ^a   Nishida, Ryutaro ^a   Morikawa, Mamoru ^a   Minami, Mashiho ^a   Yamada, Hideto ^a   Sakuragi, Noriaki ^a   Minakami, Hisanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFATRIZINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BODY WEIGHT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINA;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; VAGINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMATALES; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 30744476810     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.1.51-55.2006     Document Type: Article

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