Ureaplasma urealyticum and chorioamnionitis

Jacob-Cormier, B.; Petitjean, J.; Asselin, D.; Quibriac, M.; Von Theobald, P.

Revue Francaise de Gynecologie et d'Obstetrique 84(1): 25-28

1989


ISSN/ISBN: 0035-290X
PMID: 2928659
Document Number: 341064
160 placentas from a clinical study group of women with pregnancy wastage and a control group were examined histologically and were cultured for Ureaplasma urealyticum. Recovery of Ureaplasma urealyticum was significantly higher in the pathologic group--43 p. cent--versus 21.6 p. cent in the control group, and was associated with chorioamnionitis.

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