2005•The Medical Journal of Basrah UniversityOpen access

BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS AND PRETERM LABOUR

Meàad Kadhum Hassan, Hayfa Al-Shaheen, Jehan Majeed Al-Mukh

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This prospective case control study was carried out over a nine-month-period (from 1st of April until the end of December 2002) in Basrah maternity & children hospital to assess the association between bacterial vaginosis and preterm labour & to compare it with those who delivered at term. Data were collected & analyzed on 179 women in spontaneous labour. Seventy two with preterm labour (cases) & one hundred seven at term (controls). This study has confirmed that Gardnerella vaginalis was the commonest bacterial pathogen isolated from women with preterm labour, it was detected in 17 out of 72 women with preterm labour (23.6%) in comparison to 2 of 107(1.9%) women who delivered at term (P value

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Key concepts: Bacterial vaginosis, Preterm labour, Gardnerella vaginalis, Medicine, Obstetrics, Preterm labor, Prospective cohort study, Gynecology