Effective of metronidazole to bacterial flora in vagina and the impact of microbes on live birth rate during intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 284, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1449-1453

  Selim, Samy A ^a   El Alfy, Sahar M ^a   Aziz, Mohamed H Abdel ^a   Mohamed, Hussein M ^b   Alasbahi, Amin A ^c  

^a SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Ismailia University   (Egypt)

^c Ministry of Health   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; ICSI ET; Infection; Metronidazole; Transfer catheter

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIRTH RATE; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EMBRYO TRANSFER CATHETER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LACTOBACILLUS; LIVE BIRTH; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PH; PREGNANCY RATE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VAGINA;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BIRTH RATE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; METRONIDAZOLE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862627711     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-011-1857-2     Document Type: Article

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