[Does intensive prenatal care during childbirth lead to a greater risk of infection?]

Histological specimens of 196 secundinae were examined. In 57% of cases leucocytic infiltration was founded. A positive correlation exists between the incidence of leucocytic infiltration, premature rupture of the fetal membranes and lowgrade pyrexis at the delivery. At 67 patients controlled with intrauterine diagnostic methods we found no more leucocytic infiltrations as at normal, no-controlled patients. The findings are compared with the results of other authors.