Vaginal and oral microbes, host genotype and preterm birth

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 963-975

  Srinivasan, Usha ^a   Misra, Dawn ^b   Marazita, Mary L ^c,d,e   Foxman, Betsy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; INDOMETACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROFURANTOIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; SULFADIMIDINE; SULFAFURAZOLE; SULFANILAMIDE DERIVATIVE; SULFONAMIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLAMYDIASIS; DENTAL CARE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FETUS DISEASE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; GESTATION PERIOD; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION RISK; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MOUTH FLORA; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODONTITIS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TRICHOMONIASIS; UREAPLASMA INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOUTH; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70449718834     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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