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Background: Genital colonization of Ureaplasma urealyticum (Uu) in pregnant women could transmit vertical infection of their babies (about 15∼89% of offspring) and cause neonatal infection, which result in infection in many organs. The purpose of this study was to determine clinical influences on the infants born from genital Uu colonization mothers.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the data for analysis of the 219 infants born from mother who had test for genital Uu culture(about 470 cases) for 3 years (Mar 2006 - June 2009) in East-West Neo Medical Center, Kyunghee University. The neonatal clinical manifestations such as, duration of tachypnea, incidence of oxygen therapy, respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), sepsis, jaundice, feeding intolerance, etc. were investigated by gestational period (GP).
Results: In case of positive genital Uu culture of mothers, the preterm infants (GP < 35 weeks) had increased heart rate within 6 hours after birth, prolonged tachypnea, short period of antibiotics use, and lower incidence of RDS and hypocalcemia oxygen therapy duration, the methods and duration of positive pressure ventilation, incidence of BPD of preterm infants were not affected by maternal Uu results. The near and full term infants (GP > 35 weeks) from Uu positive mothers showed the increased jaundice.
Conclusions: It is hardly to say that genital Uu colonization in pregnant women influence the infants except jaundice. The infants who had GP < 35weeks from Uu mother showed increased heart rate within 6 hours after birth, prolonged tachypnea, short period of antibiotics use, lower incidence of RDS and hypocalcaemia.
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Chang, J., Bae, C. & Song, E. 1385 The Clinical Observation of the Infants Born From Mothers with Genital Ureaplasma Urealyticum Colonization. Pediatr Res 68 (Suppl 1), 685–686 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-201011001-01385
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-201011001-01385