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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2015 Mar 23;29(3):360–367. doi: 10.3109/14767058.2015.1006621

Table 2.

Clinical characteristics, amniotic fluid inflammatory response, and acute inflammatory placental lesions in patients with microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity using cultivation techniques.

No. Organisms GA at delivery (weeks) ELISA IL-6 (pg/ml) Point of care IL-6 (pg/ml) AF WBC (cell/mm3) AF glucose (mg/dl) Acute histological chorioamnionitis Acute funisitis
1. Haemophilus influenza beta lactamase 32+1 1765.62 428 0 15 Acute chorioamnionitis Umbilical arteritis
2. Ureaplasma urealyticum 29+4 963.7 262 20 32 No No
3. Ureaplasma urealyticum 31+4 2169.02 537 0 35 No No
4. Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma hominis, Streptococcus viridian 25+6 949.97 350 4773 1 Necrotizing chorioamnionitis Umbilical arteritis
5. Bacteroides ureolyticus, Gram-negative bacilli 29+5 5416.71 2054 10 27 Acute chorioamnionitis Umbilical arteritis
6. Streptococcus pneumoniae 22+6 120 378.2 4245 723 10 Acute chorioamnionitis Umbilical phlebitis/chorionic vasculitis
7. Streptococcus mitis 22+2 167 371.76 5310 144 1 Acute subchorionitis Umbilical arteritis
8. Streptococcus species 24+2 157 500.9 8432 760 10 Acute chorioamnionitis No
9. Bacteroides ureolyticus 20+1 326 190.4 3305 19 N/A Acute chorioamnionitis Umbilical phlebitis/chorionic vasculitis
10. Ureaplasma urealyticum 27+1 9910.19 3488 20 22 Acute chorioamnionitis Umbilical arteritis
11. Ureaplasma urealyticum 30+4 27 213.11 3570 1080 10 Acute chorioamnionitis Umbilical arteritis
12. Ureaplasma urealyticum 31+1 7413.27 1108 26 19 No No
13. Streptococcus group B, Prevotella species 30+1 39 379.07 3403 28 15 Necrotizing chorioamnionitis Umbilical arteritis
14. Ureaplasma urealyticum 27+4 284 940 4748 660 19 Subchorionic microabscesses Umbilical arteritis

N/A: not available; WBC: white blood cell count; AF: amniotic fluid.

Acute subchorionitis/chorionitis = acute histologic chorioamnionitis stage 1;

Acute chorioamnionitis = acute histologic chorioamnionitis stage 2;

Necrotizing chorioamnionitis and subacute chorioamnionitis = acute histologic chorioamnionitis stage 3;

Subchorionic microabscessess = severe acute histologic chorioamnionitis;

Umbilical phlebitis/chorionic vasculitis = acute funisitis stage 1;

Umbilical arteritis = acute funisitis stage 2;

Necrotizing funisitis = acute funisitis stage 3.