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The diagnostic performance of the beta-glucan assay in the detection of intra-amniotic infection with Candida species

Percy PacoraPerinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Detroit, MI, USA; ;Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; View further author information
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Roberto RomeroPerinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Detroit, MI, USA; ;Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; ;Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA; ;Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA; Correspondence[email protected]
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Offer ErezPerinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Detroit, MI, USA; ;Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; View further author information
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Eli MaymonPerinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Detroit, MI, USA; ;Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; View further author information
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Bogdan PanaitescuPerinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Detroit, MI, USA; ;Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; View further author information
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Juan Pedro KusanovicCenter for Research and Innovation in Maternal-Fetal Medicine (CIMAF), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sótero del Río Hospital, Santiago, Chile; ;Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileView further author information
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Adi L. TarcaPerinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Detroit, MI, USA; ;Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; View further author information
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Chaur-Dong HsuDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; View further author information
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Sonia S. HassanPerinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Detroit, MI, USA; ;Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; View further author information
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Pages 1703-1720 | Received 07 Nov 2017, Accepted 07 Dec 2017, Published online: 27 Dec 2017

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Hassendrini N. Peiris, Roberto Romero, Kanchan Vaswani, Sarah Reed, Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Adi L. Tarca, Dereje W. Gudicha, Offer Erez, Eli Maymon & Murray D. Mitchell. (2021) Preterm labor is characterized by a high abundance of amniotic fluid prostaglandins in patients with intra-amniotic infection or sterile intra-amniotic inflammation. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine 34:24, pages 4009-4024.
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Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Roberto Romero, Bogdan Panaitescu, Derek Miller, Chengrui Zou, Dereje W. Gudicha, Adi L. Tarca, Robert Para, Percy Pacora, Sonia S. Hassan & Chaur-Dong Hsu. (2021) Gasdermin D: in vivo evidence of pyroptosis in spontaneous labor at term. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine 34:4, pages 569-579.
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Robert Para, Roberto Romero, Derek Miller, Bogdan Panaitescu, Aneesha Varrey, Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa, Sonia S. Hassan, Chaur-Dong Hsu & Nardhy Gomez-Lopez. (2020) Human β-defensin-3 participates in intra-amniotic host defense in women with labor at term, spontaneous preterm labor and intact membranes, and preterm prelabor rupture of membranes. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine 33:24, pages 4117-4132.
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K Motomura, R Romero, V Garcia-Flores, Y Leng, Y Xu, J Galaz, R Slutsky, D Levenson & N Gomez-Lopez. (2020) The alarmin interleukin-1α causes preterm birth through the NLRP3 inflammasome. Molecular Human Reproduction 26:9, pages 712-726.
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Kyung Joon Oh, Roberto Romero, Jee Yoon Park, JoonHo Lee, Agustin Conde-Agudelo, Joon-Seok Hong & Bo Hyun Yoon. (2019) Evidence that antibiotic administration is effective in the treatment of a subset of patients with intra-amniotic infection/inflammation presenting with cervical insufficiency. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 221:2, pages 140.e1-140.e18.
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Nardhy Gomez-LopezRoberto Romero, Eli Maymon, Juan Pedro Kusanovic, Bogdan Panaitescu, Derek Miller, Percy Pacora, Adi L. Tarca, Kenichiro Motomura, Offer Erez, Eunjung Jung, Sonia S. Hassan & Chaur-Dong Hsu. (2019) Clinical chorioamnionitis at term IX: in vivo evidence of intra-amniotic inflammasome activation . Journal of Perinatal Medicine 47:3, pages 276-287.
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Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Roberto Romero, Bogdan Panaitescu, Yaozhu Leng, Yi Xu, Adi L. Tarca, Jonathan Faro, Percy Pacora, Sonia S. Hassan & Chaur-Dong Hsu. (2018) Inflammasome activation during spontaneous preterm labor with intra-amniotic infection or sterile intra-amniotic inflammation. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology 80:5, pages e13049.
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