The microbial load with genital mycoplasmas correlates with the degree of histologic chorioamnionitis in preterm PROM

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 213.e1-213.e7

  Kacerovsky, Marian ^a   Pliskova, Lenka ^a   Bolehovska, Radka ^a   Musilova, Ivana ^a   Hornychova, Helena ^a   Tambor, Vojtech ^a   Jacobsson, Bo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

amniotic fluid; C reactive protein; intrauterine inflammation; molecular microbiology; threshold cycle

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNISITIS; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINOPATHY; UREAPLASMA;

EID: 80052269341     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2011.04.028     Document Type: Article

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