Research Article
Effect of Genital Sampling Site on the Detection and Quantification of Ureaplasma Species with Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction during Pregnancy
Table 1
Number (
, %) of positive samples per location and per trimester in qPCR+ patients.
| | Sampling location | qPCR + T1 ( = 55) | qPCR + T2 ( = 32) | qPCR + T3 ( = 29) | Total number of tests ( = 116) |
| | Vagina (vg) | 55 (100%) | 32 (100%) | 28 (96.6%) | 115 (99.1%) | | Fornix (fx) | 52 (97.5%) | 30 (93.8%) | 27 (93.1%) | 109 (94.0%) | | Cervical 1 (cx1) | 47 (85.5%) | 30 (88.2%) | 27 (93.1%) | 104 (89.7%) | | Cervical 2 (cx2) | 44 (80.0%) | 27 (84.4%) | 26 (87.7%) | 97 (83.6%) |
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