%0 Journal Article %T Detecci¨®n de infecci¨®n por Mycoplasma en las gestantes con riesgo de parto pret¨¦rmino %A Ortega Figueroa %A L¨¢zara Miriam %A ¨¢lvarez Pineda %A Ana Bertha %A ¨¢guila Nogueira %A Yahavivi %A Viera Hern¨¢ndez %A Mercedes I %J Revista Cubana de Obstetricia y Ginecolog£¿-a %D 2012 %I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas %X introduction: the pre-term labor is produced before the 37 weeks of pregnancy; the vaginal sepsis is one of the predisposing risk factors to it, being a motive of worry for obstetricians and neonatologists. objective: to assess the use of test mycoplasma system plus in pregnancies with risk of pre-term labor, as well as of its clinical features. methods: a descriptive and retrospective study was conducted from january to september, 2010 in the "profesor eusebio hern¨¢ndez hospital; sample included 88 patients admitted in the perinatal special care unit with pregnancies under 34 weeks and performing of test who gave birth in this institution; data were collected from the medical records and microbiology reports grouped in a form and processed by descriptive statistics and of frequency distribution. results: the 6l7 % of patients had a moderate or severe infection due to ureaplasma where as the vaginal exudates were negatives in the 71.5 %, the more used antimicrobial agents was the erythromycin. conclusions: most of patients after an appropriate treatment arrive to a term pregnancy and also had negative simple vaginal exudate but with a high rate of infection due to ureaplasma urelyticum. %K pre-term labor %K risk factors %K mycoplasma. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0138-600X2012000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en