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ORTEGA FIGUEROA, Lázara Miriam; ALVAREZ PINEDA, Ana Bertha; AGUILA NOGUEIRA, Yahavivi  y  VIERA HERNANDEZ, Mercedes I. Detection of Mycoplasma infection in pregnants with a risk of preterm delivery. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2012, vol.38, n.2, pp. 161-169. ISSN 0138-600X.

Introduction: the pre-term labor is produced before the 37 weeks of pregnancy; the vaginal sepsis is one of the predisposing risk factors to it, being a motive of worry for obstetricians and neonatologists. Objective: to assess the use of Test Mycoplasma System Plus in pregnancies with risk of pre-term labor, as well as of its clinical features. Methods: a descriptive and retrospective study was conducted from January to September, 2010 in the "Profesor Eusebio Hernández Hospital; sample included 88 patients admitted in the perinatal special care unit with pregnancies under 34 weeks and performing of test who gave birth in this institution; data were collected from the medical records and microbiology reports grouped in a form and processed by descriptive statistics and of frequency distribution. Results: the 6l7 % of patients had a moderate or severe infection due to ureaplasma where as the vaginal exudates were negatives in the 71.5 %, the more used antimicrobial agents was the erythromycin. Conclusions: most of patients after an appropriate treatment arrive to a term pregnancy and also had negative simple vaginal exudate but with a high rate of infection due to ureaplasma urelyticum.

Palabras clave : pre-term labor; risk factors; Mycoplasma.

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