العلاقة بين إنتان المهبل بالعقديات الحالة للدم بيتا من الزمرة B و الولادة المبكرة

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Background & Objective: Preterm delivery still has made the main cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity; previous studies have been performed to clarify the main risk factors of preterm delivery focusing on preterm labor and premature rupture of membrane.

The aim of this study to find out the relation between vaginal infection by GBS and the preterm delivery.

Methods & Materials: This study has been performed at Maternity Hospital – Damascus University, Syria, the patients are divided into two groups, first Group (study group); 802 patient, which includes the preterm Labor sub group; 337 patients and PROM sub group; 425 patients.

The second group is (control group) 460 those whom diagnosed as in labor or early in labor at term.

High vaginal swabs was taken from all patients to investigate the presence of GBS by cultured in special medium then the result had been graded into Latex Detector to Determine the type of GBS as Type (A, B, C…).

Results: The findings showed that the GBS in control group were 21.5%, while in early labor group were 45.9% and PROM group were 39.8%, whoever the highest percentage of GBS presence in all groups were found to be in those who were 21-30 years old and have had 1-3 children with gestational age more than 34 weeks.

Conclusion: A tight relation between vaginal infection in GBS and preterm delivery had been emerged.

Whoever the maternal age (21-30), parities (1-3) and gestational age more than 34 weeks has been noticed as the risk factors for preterm delivery