Basic vaginal pH, bacterial vaginosis and aerobic vaginitis: Prevalence in early pregnancy and risk of spontaneous preterm delivery, a prospective study in a low socioeconomic and multiethnic South American population

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Krauss Silva, Leticia ^a   Almada Horta, Antonio ^b   Alves, Mariane B ^b   Camacho, Karla G ^a   Moreira, Maria Elizabeth L ^a   Braga, Alcione ^c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c PROCEP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aerobic vaginitis; Bacterial vaginosis; Ethnicity; Prevalence; Relative risk; Spontaneous preterm delivery; Vaginal pH level

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABORTION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; NUGENT SCORE; PH; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPONTANEOUS PRETERM DELIVERY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINA PH; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS;

ADULT; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BRAZIL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS; VAGINITIS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84899082851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-107     Document Type: Article

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