Detección de infección por Mycoplasma en las gestantes con riesgo de parto pretérmino

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 hernández 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.