title: Preterm labor: the role of amnionitis.
abstract: This prospective study represents an attempt to find a link between subclinical intra-amniotic infection and preterm singleton labor in 27 asymptomatic patients with intact membranes. Liquor amnii was obtained by transabdominal amniocentesis and cultured for anaerobic and aerobic bacteria and mycoplasmas. None of these cultures was positive. The value of gas-liquid chromatographic determination of volatile and non-volatile acids in liquor amnii could not be determined because amniotic infections did not occur in the population under study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schoofs
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Defoort
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thiery
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Claeys
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vanhaesebrouck
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vanluchene
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Verschraegen
mesh_terms: D000649:Amniocentesis; D000653:Amniotic Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D002821:Chorioamnionitis / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006194:Gardnerella vaginalis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006192:Haemophilus Infections / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007752:Obstetric Labor, Premature / Q000209:etiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000150:complications; D013292:Streptococcus agalactiae / Q000302:isolation & purification