Project

Vaginal microflora and bacterial vaginosis in relation to preterm birth

Code
01G002A8
Duration
01 January 2008 → 15 March 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Microbiology
    • Systems biology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
    • Gynaecology and obstetrics
    • Immunology
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Microbiology
    • Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
    • Gynaecology and obstetrics
    • Immunology
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Microbiology
    • Nursing
    • Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
    • Gynaecology and obstetrics
    • Immunology
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Microbiology
Keywords
obstetrics preterm birth microbiology
 
Project description

The etiology of bacterial vaginosis (BV) and the relationship between BV and preterm birth will be studied, in the light of new insights - like the strong association between the fastidious, metronidazole resistant bacterium Atopobium vaginae and BV, by means of an in vitro amnion model and several clinical studies in combination with advanced DNA-techniques and analytical techniques (like gas chromatography-mass spectrometry).