The bacterial load of Ureaplasma parvum in amniotic fluid is correlated with an increased intrauterine inflammatory response

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-121

  Kasper, David C ^a   Mechtler, Thomas P ^a   Reischer, Georg H ^b   Witt, Armin ^a   Langgartner, Michaela ^a   Pollak, Arnold ^a   Herkner, Kurt R ^a   Berger, Angelika ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chorioamnionitis; Early onset sepsis; Interleukin 8; Intrauterine inflammation; Preterm labor; Quantitative real time PCR; Ureaplasma parvum; Ureaplasma urealyticum

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 8;

ACCURACY; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LEUKOMALACIA; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-8; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 77952741180     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.12.023     Document Type: Article

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