Premium
Vaginal Infection Causing Spontaneous Rupture of the Membranes and Premature Delivery
Author(s) -
Grice Alan C.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1974.tb00833.x
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , trichomoniasis , medicine , premature rupture of membranes , vaginal delivery , obstetrics , rupture of membranes , gynecology , pregnancy , gestation , biology , optics , physics , genetics
Summary: The incidence of vaginal infection in a group of patients in whom spontaneous rupture of the membranes and subsequent premature delivery occurred was compared with the incidence in a control group of patients. The incidence of vaginal moniliasis was essentially the same in both groups of patients. However, the incidence of vaginal trichomoniasis was 2.2 times higher in patients who had spontaneous rupture of the membranes and subsequent premature delivery than in the control group of patients (P < 0.01).