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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease chorioamnionitis
Phenotype C0022876|preterm labour
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PubMedID- PMC4652954 Mucosal candidiasis, especially vulvovaginal candidiasis, is the most common fungal disease in normal healthy women [2,3] on the other hand pregnant women are the most predisposed to severe vulvovaginal candidiasis as a result of lowered immunity [4–6] and this severity may involve among others chorioamnionitis which eventually leads to preterm labour [7,8].
PubMedID- 20450832 Preterm tissue was collected from three different groups of patients: (1) idiopathic preterm labour (ptl) without chorioamnionitis or betamethasone (bm) treatment (n = 9), (2) idiopathic ptl that received bm with no chorioamnionitis (ptl-bm; n = 9) and (3) pregnancies that were complicated with chorioamnionitis and had no bm (ptl-cha; n = 6).

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