Role of intracellular infections in premature childbirth
Zurabishvili, S.; Mamamtavrishvili, I.; Apridonidze, K.; Shanidze, L.
Georgian Medical News 126: 58-60
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 1512-0112 PMID: 16234597 Document Number: 591936
Vaginal Smear taken by sterile Folkman spoon from 15 women with premature birth was studied. The study was performed by the direct immune fluorescence method with the luminescence microscope. We aimed to study the effect of intracellular infections: ureaplasma urealitikum, mycoplasma hominis, Chlamydia trachomatis, herpes simplex virus of I and II type and cytomegalovirus. Intracellular infections were detected in at about 82% of cases, which included mono infections with cytomegalovirus and in 9 cases in the form of bi-component associations. The obtained results may be interesting from the etiologic point of view of premature births in Georgian population.