Vaginal infection with Ureaplasma urealyticum accounts for preterm delivery via induction of inflammatory responses

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 297-304

  Harada, Kayoko ^a   Tanaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Komori, Shinji ^a   Tsuji, Yoshiyuki ^b   Nagata, Kumiko ^a,c   Tsutsui, Hiroko ^a   Koyama, Koji ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kobe Adventist Hospital   (Japan)

^c SENRI KINRAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interleukin 8; Lipoprotein; Preterm delivery; U. urealyticum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENZYME ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPROTEIN; UREASE;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CELL DEATH; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MONOCYTE; MYCOPLASMA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; STAINING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UREAPLASMA INFECTION; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINA SECRETION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VAGINITIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; VAGINA;

MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATACEAE; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-8; LIPOPROTEINS; MONOCYTES; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 52649128319     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2008.00039.x     Document Type: Article

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