Study of bacterial colonization of the cervix in pre-term rupture of the membranes

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study was to correlate bacterial colonization of the cervix with aerobic, facultative anacrobic and anacrobic micro organisms to premature rupture of the membranes. The study was conducted on sixty pregnant women attending the emergency delivery unit in Kasr El-Aini Hospital. The study revealed that lactobacilli seem to have a productive role against colonization by potential pathogenic anacrobes which would have a stimulating or precipitating rupture of the membranes