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Interaction of multitudes of factors with infection can contribute to pregnancy outcome. Differences in these factors (as outlined above) can contribute to racial disparity, in which case infection is likely to be a secondary phenomenon. Most of these factors are not independent and interactions do exist between them in addition to infection contributing to the complexity of preterm birth.
