Screening of Antenatal Lower Genital Tract Infection in Women of Saudi Arabia for Preventing Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight using PCR Techniques

ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

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Yasser Abdullah Al- Hajjaj¹, Rashead Musa Al-ssum¹, Omar H. M. Shair¹, Ejaz Askari² and Ashraf Atef Hatamleh³

¹King Saud University, College of Science, department of Botany and Microbiology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

²King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

³King Saud University, College of Science, department of Botany and Microbiology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2016;10(4):2577-2583

https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.10.4.13 | © The Author(s). 2016

Received: 10/10/2016 | Accepted: 30/11/2016 | Published: 31/12/2016

Abstract

The aim of this study was to detect bacterial infection of: Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma spp. and Mycoplasma, from Saudi women samples. Samples were 100 from pregnant women attending the obstetrics and Gynecology clinic at Alymamah Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during March 2013 to March 2014. DNA was successfully amplified from 56 samples. The results of this study indicated more reliable method which detected Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma spp. and Mycoplasma which caused vaginitis in lower genital, showed high frequency of both Mycoplasma spp (44.6%) and Ureaplasma spp (30.4%) infection among Saudi pregnant women. Association of Mycoplasma spp, Ureaplasma spp, and C. trachomatis has been observed but no association was observed between M. hominis, M. genitalium and U.urealyticum.

Keywords

Chlamydia, Mycoplasma; Ureaplasma; Vaginitis.

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