Treatment of genital mycoplasma in colonized pregnant women in late pregnancy is associated with a lower rate of premature labour and neonatal complications

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1074-1079

  Vouga, M ^a   Greub, G ^a,b   Prod'hom, G ^b   Durussel, C ^b   Roth Kleiner, M ^a   Vasilevsky, S ^a   Baud, D ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cervical length shortening; Genital mycoplasma; Neonatal complications; Premature labour; Uterine contractions

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS INFECTION; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTION; COMPLICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATALES INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREMATURE BIRTH; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; YOUNG ADULT;

MYCOPLASMA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINDAMYCIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATALES INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UREAPLASMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84913622034     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12686     Document Type: Article

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