Detection of ureaplasmas by the polymerase chain reaction in the amniotic fluid of patients with cervical insufficiency

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-268

  Oh, Kyung Joon ^a   Lee, Si Eun ^a   Jung, Hanna ^a   Kim, Gilja ^a   Romero, Roberto ^b   Yoon, Bo Hyun ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid (AF); Cervical insufficiency; Chorioamnionitis; Intra amniotic infection; Intra amnioticinflammation; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Pregnancy; Preterm birth; Spontaneous abortion; Ureaplasmas

Indexed keywords

NEUTROPHIL COLLAGENASE;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; AMNIONITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; FEMALE; FUNISITIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UTERINE CERVIX INCOMPETENCE;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 8; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; UREAPLASMA; UTERINE CERVICAL INCOMPETENCE;

EID: 77952178908     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2010.040     Document Type: Article

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