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Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES
In a nested case-control study, the occurrence of Ureaplasma urealyticum in
cervical specimens from 84 women with idiopathic preterm delivery and from
400 women delivering at term was investigated. The two potential risk fact
ors for preterm delivery, colonization with Ureaplasma urenlyticum and bact
erial vaginosis, were found to be interdependent variables. The association
between these factors and preterm delivery was assessed by regression anal
ysis. Neither colonization with Ureaplasma urealyticum (odds ratio [OR] 0.7
, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.4-1.2) nor bacterial vaginosis (OR 0.8, 95
% CI 0.3-1.8) was associated with preterm delivery. In women who delivered
preterm, biovar 2 was found significantly more often in those with the clin
ical diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis (43%) than in those without (5%) (OR
15, 95% CI 1.2-209).