Vaginal bacterial load in the second trimester is associated with early preterm birth recurrence: a nested case

Vaginal bacterial load in the second trimester is associated with early preterm birth recurrence: a nested case–control study

Published:2021-07-19 Issue:13 Volume:128 Page:2061-2072
ISSN:1470-0328
Container-title:BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
language:en
Short-container-title:BJOG

Author:

Goodfellow L¹^ORCID,Verwijs MC²,Care A¹^ORCID,Sharp A¹,Ivandic J¹,Poljak B³,Roberts D³,Bronowski C²^ORCID,Gill AC²,Darby AC⁴,Alfirevic A¹,Muller‐Myhsok B¹⁵,Alfirevic Z¹,van de Wijgert JHHM²⁶^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Harris Wellbeing Research Centre Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool Liverpool UK

2. Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology Institute of Infection, Veterinary, and Ecological Sciences University of Liverpool Liverpool UK

3. Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool UK

4. Centre for Genomic Research University of Liverpool Liverpool UK

5. Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Munich Germany

6. Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care University Medical Centre Utrecht Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1471-0528.16816

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1. Cross-Country Individual Participant Analysis of 4.1 Million Singleton Births in 5 Countries with Very High Human Development Index Confirms Known Associations but Provides No Biologic Explanation for 2/3 of All Preterm Births