[Genital Mycoplasma as a risk factor of obstetric and perinatal pathology]

The paper gives the results of the study into genital Mycoplasma in 1,200 females and 254 newborns and provides strong evidence for the fact that there is a relationship between the Mycoplasma carriage and the inflammatory urogenital processes. It also shows that M. hominis and Ur. urealyticum may persist in the endometrium of females suffering from isthmo-cervical insufficiency. Genital Mycoplasma have been found to play an etiological role in intrauterine infection in premature neonates and in inflammatory processes (endometritis, wound infection following cesarean section) in parturients.